Harry, I have that problem, my hands have to be busy all the times or I go nuts, its an ADD thing from when I was a kid, thats one reason why I build models, it keeps my hands busy and has a claming effect for me. But Its very hard for me to sit and watch TV with out doing something else. I will sit and watch a movie with the girlfriend at times, but thats all I can stand.
I do use all of the todays techno things, but the one thing that I really dont like is the whole social media thing, it gets old hearing about it non stop. I have twitter, hardly use it, I dont tweet but use to follow NASCAR drivers and teams and TV people, I logged in to facebook once or twice a week , but thats it.
I keep joking that I feel left out with an Ipod, girlfriend/and her son have pods, but I dont really need one, my BlackBerry has all my music and I can connect it the car( using a tape cassette adaptor ). I am all over the techno stuff, love it, but dont let it run my life.