Asocial media

One of the worst aspects of your friends and family having smartphones is that you KnOW they receive these messages instantly yet somehow so many of them may takes days or weeks to respond- if ever - in which case it makes it seem that they are CHOOSING to ignore you, right?
How and why is that ok?...

My mother and I went on a 45 minute tirade about how modern technologies have just turned everyone into zombies- and on of the worst examples is the conversations she has with the young mothers of her students who have 2-3 elementary-aged children or younger BUT who's husbands are seriously addicted gamers who have no time for their families...
In many ways Blur was right when they said 'modern life is rubbish'...