Forget about what it’s doing to reading and writing. I hate what it’s doing to human interaction.
I am interacting now with people I haven’t seen for over 40 years. Friendships have been rekindled and forgotten memories have sprung to life again. Further, when one son was in Afghanistan, another in Seoul, a daughter and granddaughter in Washington State, another daughter in Texas and two more in Alabama, I, who live next to the jungle of Papua, Indonesia was able to get online and “chat” with all of them and keep them apprised of an impending trip to Singapore.
That human interaction would never have happened without the internet and the digital age.