Is Facebook taking over our lives?

Okay, I for one spend far too much time constantly refreshing my homepage on facebook, and everymorning checking it on my phone is the first thing i do.
Waste of time, definately. Addictive? Hell yes.

Well, According to the official Facebook statistics page (http://www.facebook.com/press/in...) Facebook users 1400 minutes per user per month.So over the course of a 30 day month, the average user spends approximately 46 minutes per day on Facebook. 

Now this is  average, and im not sure wether they mean, actually engaging on facebook, or simply having it open on your browser. A lot of people i know ( roughly about the same age) will have facebook open the WHOLE time they're on their computer, so for HOURS a day...
One report i read however - "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2026086/Facebook-Young-people-spend-time-online-theyre-lonely-elderly.html"
States that even though we teenagers/youngadults spend so much time sitting on Facebook,catching up with friends that people are actually LONELY, of course there is a massive difference between typing to someone, and actually talking to them in person. But still the fact that "Sixty per cent said they found it difficult to make friends 'in real life' compared with online and a similar number (69 per cent) said they believe that Britain is an unfriendly place to live." Is shocking!! 


Are teenagers now so engrossed in Facebook and that way of communicating that social skills are being damaged? That they cant comfortable have a conversation or meet someone new? ( When random facebook adds leading to a strange sort of "online" friendship are common)
Is this really what the future holds as technology builds? That people are much more comfortable behind a screen than outside?
Its a strange thought, and one i hope wont turn out to be true.