In the present, people are on their phones at almost all waking moments of the day. Face to face communication and small talk are a dying concept. People now days, need to put down their phones and communicate with their mouths rather than their thumbs. Garrison Keillor has many interesting thoughts on this topic. The article, The small-talk pleasantries we don't do much anymore, is about how we don’t talk to strangers and strike up good conversation anymore. Even in small towns, people walk around with their headphones on or on their phones, so there is not opportunity to create conversation (Keillor). Without conversation we cannot get to know new people. In the book Staggerford, small town life is shown how it used to be (Hassler). People
