It's not the phones people are overwhelmingly interacting with. Unless you're watching someone bored in public transport reading the news on the phone or somet

It's not the phones people are overwhelmingly interacting with. Unless you're watching someone bored in public transport reading the news on the phone or something, phones are just the mean, not the end. There are people at the other end - colleagues, friends, loved ones. They are talking to each other, sharing experiences, having fun, being in love, agreeing on what's for dinner, planning, coordinating, organizing, updating, ... and a lot more other, maybe banal things. At least for me, friend is a friend, loved one is a loved one, and it doesn't matter if we communicate via text, photo of a cool thing one of us just saw or in person, I'm going to be happy to hear from them.