I agree with Vince....
While it is certainly true for SOME people that maybe they don't get out and do activities because of the technology... I know for a fact that my kids are ACTIVE because of the technology -- and they have managed to keep in touch with many more friends thru college and after graduation etc via social media... and when they travel - they get together and do stuff. I can't tell you where many of my high school friends are. We never had ways to keep in touch - one move - phone number change and poof...
Think about the get-togethers and the people that many of us have met just because of Lateral-G. I've traveled way out of my way just to go to some event because people were on here talking it up - and saying they'd be there etc.
So like most things -- I think it's a matter of HOW you use it... and if you use it TO LOOK UP FROM THE PHONE.... in other words -- it (technology) can be used to enhance your personal interactions IF used correctly.
Saturday afternoons there is usually an informal gathering of hot rodder out at a local drive in.... We just take our chairs and sit in the shade and blabber and have a burger. I got on the jungle line (phone) to see who - or if any - of my buddies were planning on going out (because of the heat - and we're all old - most of them are 70+ now).. and as soon as I saw they were planning on it -- out I went... once there - none of us used our phones. That may be the real difference.... we used the gadgets to meet up - then the gadgets stayed in our pockets.
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