Continuing conversation . . . .

So (continuing as if nothing had happened from yesterday) . . . we appear, more so every day, to be in an age of increasing technology but decreasing communications. Perhaps the point I'm making to my friend's dilema is that everything is certainly not lost! But the point of this particular post is that, because emailing and txt are now so widespread and easily accessible, it is really making a dent in our ability, as a species, to communicate f-t-f. All the hard things that we have to try and and manage in conversation, for example, getting together with someone, or indeed, breaking up with them, can now be done with the convenience of a text message. Now this is not only a demeaning and detrimental thing for the person on the wrong end of any such conversation, but importantly for this article, we can, very conveniently avoid having an ACTUAL CONVERSATION. I think there really is something to be said for facing your fears head on, and part of that includes facing up to people, literally, when there is trouble or tension between you. I'm sad to say that I can only see this aspect of humanity disappearing as time goes by; more and more people will just take the easiest route possible and just end up dumping some poor person over a txt. What this adds up to, in my book at least, is a sorry state of affairs for the human race. If we can not conduct the hard stuff between us any more f-t-f, how long before the easy stuff goes as well? We can already do all our shopping online, thereby reducing our social skills to dealing with the occasional postman, but what next?
Much is made of our increasing ability to communicate. I, for one, am sad to see that this is only going to lead to a decline in communication.
rik