The internet and electronic communication generally (text, apps, email etc) have rendered a lot of people pretty useless at communicating with each other, especially strangers. I find it kind of bemusing how in a lot of the country you can walk past the same people day after day in the street and barely even say hello, or stand at a bus stop where you're all bored stupid and say nothing to each other. In most countries people strike up a conversation, but British people seem almost scared to engage with people in person anymore. As I've got older I've noticed how many people I know (and indeed often myself) feel lonely even though we're literally surrounded by people. I wonder if modern technology has made that more of a problem than it once was.