I completely agree

This site is supposed to be a light-hearted humour website, but once in a while they post an article that hits truer than anything that I can come up with. And believe me, I tried.

It's quite a long article (as in you have to spend about five minutes reading it), but I'll just give you the Cliff Notes:

• thanks to our electronic tools, airplanes and interweb people in current society are less able to effectively communicate face-to-face. There are less opportunities to meet new people in person, because everything is so damned conveniently near your home.
• not being able to meet in person, reduces the communication channels to e-mail, text messaging and so on. That's stuff that one could easily misinterpret.
• the people we meet in our MSN, Hyves etc. share common interests. In retrospect this means these people are already alike, and you won't find out anything new. That doesn't breed opportunities for conversation. (here is also where you'll find the showstealing lines of the night:

"I've been insulted lots, but I've been criticized very little. And don't ever confuse the two. An insult is just someone who hates you making a noise to indicate their hatred. (...) Criticism is someone trying to help you, by telling you something about yourself that you were a little too comfortable not knowing. Tragically, there are now a whole lot of people who never have those conversations. The interventions, the brutal honesty, the, "you know, everybody's pissed off because of what you said last night, but nobody wants to say anything because they're afraid of you," sort of conversations. Those horrible, awkward, wrenchingly uncomfortable sessions that you can only have with someone who sees right to the center of you.")

• the very notion that we have MORE control over what we do, when we do it, and whom we do it with, is killing for the social capacity of man. Mankind's social skills are grown through unpredictability, through dealing with people who are unlike you, and you do it face to face, with total fear of repercussions.
  

... ah, just read the article.