I think that Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" gets across my position here. There is in Internet media something which engenders a short attention span, an addiction to novelty. Something which pushes breadth-thinking over depth-thinking, and which causes us to relate to other humans in inhumane ways. We have all the worlds information at our fingertips, but do we give any of it the time it deserves?

Yes, it is merely a tool. But tools aren't really use-case neutral. Bombs and stethoscopes are obvious examples.