When I was a kid in the 90's I had the same experience. My family had friends that would just stop by and they would entertain them for an hour or two just to c

When I was a kid in the 90's I had the same experience. My family had friends that would just stop by and they would entertain them for an hour or two just to catch up. I think our "connectedness" killed this off - now we see a status update and that fills us in on the things that we would have learned from that conversation, with zero effort. The problem is that the status update doesn't build an actual human relationship. But it isn't just social networks, even things like SMS have killed off more meaningful connections, over the phone. Most people have chosen quantity over quality.