Down the Canyon of No Return

It is quite simple. Remove words that once had meaning. Sincerity, honesty, communication, (I don't mean texting or tweeting). How many times do we see people sitting at the same table in a cafe or a Starbucks each on their smart phones. Neither talking to the person across from them.

Have we become so important that talking to one another face to face will soon be obsolete? Send the wrong emoji and you have hurt someone's feelings. Anyone of us during our lifetime will be very lucky if we have two close friends. Not, I'm sorry to say, the 9,321 who are on some list that want to see the salad you're eating at that moment. Or the new shoes. Those are not friends, most are not even acquaintances. They're strangers thirsting for some form of personal connection, but most are harvesting numbers in hopes of getting advertising dollars. It's almost like a perpetual Easter Egg hunt.

I'm sorry to rant, but the lack of social skills of society in the future will be a whole new world. Easily manipulated and yearning for something, but they won't know what. Imagine what it would be like if suddenly for two weeks there is no internet and no phone service. What would it be like? What would happen?