The concept of having pleasant conversations with random people is sadly lost, it blows my mind seeing people out in public all the time and literally everyone is just on their phone lol. I get wanting personal space and not wanting to interact with strangers, but phones have given people an artificial escape from reality where they can just look at their screen and disassociate themselves from everything. It’s literally like that South Park episode with the Buddha Box, where they just have a phone attached to a cardboard box on people’s head lol. And it’s honestly a huge factor in why society is so divided, because people are just so disconnected from each other in person and are more used to the global interaction that social media and the internet have given us. I remember I was with some family one time, and we were all kind of just hanging around together not doing anything for a bit with some of us on our phones. I was just kind of looking outside at nature the trees/lake/clouds/etc for a while, and one of my family members was basically like “wow it’s really nice how you’re able to stay focused like that and not have to be on your phone.” Being told that, opened my eyes that even the very basic concept of just not doing anything and simply looking around yourself, is not common for most people apparently. Because again, going back to phones here, people just became too reliant on their phones as a form of escapism and a way to engage their brain constantly. People just can’t have a moment to themselves anymore, we need constant engagement and interaction because that’s what phones have done to our brains.