Whatever Happened to Talking?

I had the pleasure of going to the movies this past weekend, which does not happen very often. I am one of those people that like to get there 30 minutes early. That way i can get the perfect seat and i am sure not to miss my favorite part, the previews! Any who, will sitting there i glanced around the theater and noticed the luminescent lights from a number of different cell phones. People sitting right next to each other not speaking but texting, surfing the net, of listening to music on their phones. I remember when that time before the movie started was used to converse with the person/people your with. This makes me wonder, now that so much is available to us, what would we do without it?