Is it normal modern technology is making people anti social?

I will concur, in the sense that social networking has helped me to NOT have to be physically social with people. I don't like socializing in public, and the Internet gives me the ability to still stay "in the loop."

Don't get me wrong: I'm not antisocial. If I have to interact with people, I can act as if I'm the life of the party. But after that moment, you'll most likely never see me again. I don't like crowds, I don't like random conversation. I am an introvert.

I've always believed that human interaction is overrated to an extent. Fake people smiling at each other then stabbing each other in the back just isn't my cup of tea.

I disagree with the premise. Sure, iPhones, iPods, and other handhelds with or without headphones give people an excuse not to communicate with their immediate environment, but many of those people are communicating/socializing via those devices. Likewise, before the age of the iPod, believe or not, Walkmans existed. As did newspapers and magazines - resources more commonly accessed nowadays via handhelds. People have been intentionally distracted and antisocial for ages.

My experience isn't that people are less social, it's that how we socialize is being redefined. That and we're getting older and distancing ourselves from the norms we grew up with and their subsequent transitional norms. Face-to-face, the younger generation has always been more socially awkward than their elder counterparts, but that's more a function of age than era.

I'm glad at how technology has changed society, I'll admit it. I'm very unsocial. I just pretend I'm preoccupied with my tablet so people will leave me alone on the bus or whereever. In the past, I would have had to live in a cabin in the middle of nowhere to be happy. Now I can choose whether to be social or not. Why do you hate freedom and choice? I honestly think you don't want me to exist. You want me to value everything you value, but I dont, and that scares you. Your heaven is my hell. I repeat, why do you hate choice and freedom? Why can't we choose to be unsocial? If you don't like tech, don't fucking use it! If you want to talk to people all day, fucking talk to people all day, but don't complain about people who happen to be different than you.

My sister has her headphones glued to her ears 24/7 listening to music and/or playing games on her iphone. Once we went on a drive and I was talking about something serious for almost 30 minutes - I turned towards her for a response and there she was, head banging her head out the window. I really wanted to throw her phone out of the window.

haha touche my friend, touche.

Yes & No

Yes, because (what you said) technology like cell phones and tablets tend to distract us from talking to people that are right in front of us.

No, because it lets us talk to people all over the world. In that sense, it brings the world closer together. I think the vast majority of people I talk to online are foreigners. I like talking to people from around the world, because it has opened me up to different insight/conversations I'm not used to.

Social networking tends to make people more social, in my opinion. One of my best friends added me on Facebook before we hung out, then we started hanging out all the time. But it sounds like you mean technology as a whole, not just social networking, and you may be right to a degree.

Yes.

I think so yes.

Why are you trying to communicate with me?