Important piece of technology if and when used correctly, apart from what you are saying which is true, there is the social interaction debate, you take your family for say a birthday celebration to a fast food establishment, before anyone has chosen. ordered ofr found somewhere to sit and eat, out come the I.hones tablets, watches, yes my lad has an I.watch, they are all tapping away texting each other,and the person they are texting is sat next to them, even as you mentioned older people, the art of conversation gone and forgotten, ask any teenager today to write a letter to their Grandparents thanking them for their Birthday gift, "Oh I'll text them later" what if the poor old buggers can't work a blasted I phone, or even know what a text is.