TALKING vs TEXTING

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Once upon a time my neighbor would come knocking on my door; sit down and enjoy a beverage (of a certain nature of course) and we would talk in person for a hours on end. Once upon a time, we as children would play in the streets, bushes and trees for hours on end - enjoying one another's company. Once upon a time our teens would visit each other and working on the others parents for hours on end with frivolous conversation about a potential new boyfriend, or heaven forbid, heartbreak of some sort. Once upon a time our grandparents would sit with the grandchildren, reminiscing about a time not too long ago when children used to respect their parents. Taking the above in context - WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US AS A SOCIETY JUST TALKING? We have become sort used to technology that it seems we have forgotten the art of interacting with one another as human beings. Instead, we have fallen prey to the art of social TEXTING and this is really sad. It has, in my view, devalued our very existence as we have prioritized being techno experts above being just plain good human beings. How sad that parents buy their infants cheap phones to become - hopefully- technologically advanced. How sad that children, teens in particular, have become entrenched in a world consisting almost entirely of social texting. How sad that even our elders have left their traditional roles behind and are striving more and more to fit into the modern status quo of texting rather than talking. Having said this, I'm not an anti-social media preacher (far from it), rather, I'm a person who believes that there should be equal balance between technology and being human. Why can't both co-exist without endangering the other? These are just my views - anyone else who shares my sentiment or alternatively, WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON TALKING vs TEXTING?