An example of something not a technology that people get addicted to.
You have a very weird definition of "technology" if alcohol is not a technology.
Alcohol is not inherently bad
Only because (Western) humans have had several millennia to develop adaptations to it. Go to, say, an Indian (Native American) reservation to see what affect alcohol has on humans not adapted to it. It's not pretty.
many people use videogames without getting addicted
Wait until the market for videogame addictiveness saturates.
But more to the point, are you going to argue that video games have actually improved social iterations?
video games have actually improved social iterations?
I was going to start with - they didn't destroy the world. (because they didn't)
And advance into; some video games have been beneficial.
Speaking from personal experience, finding the right relationship can be HARD. I recently came across a rational take on finding relationship partners, much of which really resonated with my experiences:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner-part-2.html
(I'm still working my way through the Sequences, and lw has more than eight thousand articles with "relationship" in them. I'm not promising the linked articles include unique information)