I've mentioned this in another comment about a month ago but it is smartphones. You go to a bar as a regular once or twice a week, even people you know on a fir

I've mentioned this in another comment about a month ago but it is smartphones. You go to a bar as a regular once or twice a week, even people you know on a first name basis whip out their phones to talk to friends who aren't even there. Um...hello? I'm right next to you, present and willing to communicate, taking the initiative and effort to come out. Why are you ignoring me for the other person who isn't even there? Phones have made personal relationships much harder because now people can talk to other people not even present far more conveniently. It is a double edge sword in it's entirety. It makes communication convenient and effortless, but also makes personal relationships just as difficult to maintain since you can just text instead of meeting up to get to know how someone's life has been going. >Too many people don't have the resources to invest in friendships. I don't believe that for a second. The simple fact that social media is alive and well wasting billions of hours of free time is more than enough to refute that point altogether. People in the past had time for friends and now suddenly they don't? I'd argue it's because people are spending more time on their phones texting or using social media than they are actually physically talking. As I've personally witnessed in many bars. I've had great chats with random strangers who were in the Gen-X or higher age group more than I have in the millennial and younger. Do you know why? They weren't staring at their phones the moment the conversation kinda died. Do you know what they did? They also tried to talk and bring something up during the conversation!