talking to eath other

I am very lucky to have such great neighbors. It may seem very strange to some people but I do not even have my neighbors phone number. We simply talk to each other over the fence or we knock on the door. We talk face to face, no phone, computer ect... As a whole our society has become so dependent on electronics that we no longer have any personal contact with each other. Even our grocery stores have self check out lines, this only seems to alienate us from other people and it takes jobs away. I don't even like my local grocery store anymore, for the fact that it has become more corporate "get the job done" than it used to be community orientated. Even some of my family perfers to text message then to just call and talk no matter how long or short it may be.