The dawning of full social isolation

I cannot exclude myself from this observation but it seems we are doing a great job of doing away with face-to-face social interaction! Whilst waiting for the bus outside stoke station this evening I looked around and noticed not a single person was talking to another. I then looked further and amongst the 12 of us there was not a single person with their ears unplugged and open for a conversation. Everybody with wired up to some form of MP3 device and had opted to isolate themselves from the world in favour of music. In an age where we seem to want to socialise everything in our lives (and I am an advocate to that) it seems we are struggling to keep alive the one very basic, and unelectronically maintained form of social interaction, conversation. How much longer before we decide that facebook is the only way we're going to chat to our nearest and dearest and whenever we're not online we're listening to N-DUBZ on our ipod....!