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I miss the face-to-face social interaction and that people actually looked you in the eye when speaking. Today, communication is by twitting -- even when the person you are twitting is just 50 feet away. Today meeting someone to date is filling out online profiles and hoping that those you read were honestly created. I much prefer having been "introduced by my cousin to this single woman he knows" at a face-to-face social gathering.
I also miss the idea of the neighborhood kids gathering after school at the local field for a pickup game of baseball. Now they rush home to play some online game by themselves or if with others, with anonymous others.
I miss the civility that came with in-person face-to-face social interactions. I think much of the polarization in today's world has come about because those with different ideas are not "real" to us. We never meet them, we never socialize with them, we never get the opportunity to view the world through their eyes.
The internet has made society cold and indifferent, it has hardened views.
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