Cultural Shifts

If you go to any sort of school campus (high school, college) you do not see students volunteering within their community for the sake of it. Most students are propelled to complete service hours by something like a requirement for a club or class. Many students do not just go out on a daily or monthly basis to do good for others unless it is somehow required.
People in general are very into technology and I believe that it has taken away from things that were even in tact when I was growing up. For instance, I would always be outside playing with the other kids on the block for countless hours during the summer. Today I see that young kids are inside on the computer or playing video games. Yeah the talk to others but these people (such as in X-box) are half way around the world. My neighborhood is filled with kids that are much younger than me. Maybe 3 years ago you could go out on any given sunny warm day and the kids would be playing outside and the parents would all be conversing. Today now that the kids are a little older, they are more into their computer games and tv shows and have less of an interest to go outside. My own community has shifted to technology.
Not only are the kids shifting but the parents are too. We have a yearly block party. there would be monthly meeting starting around January to start planning for the event. Now everything is done through emailing back and forth and there is less social interaction.
This shift I think makes people less sociable because they are spending more time interacting with electronics than other people. They are not building relationships with one another. People loose the desire to get together for fun because it becomes a hassle or inconvenience because someone needs to be pick up or dropped off.