Social Skills

While the new generation has phenomenal technology skills, they are lacking in social skills. They have been brought up to communicate through the written word instead of the spoken word. People that are forty and over know how to speak to people outside of their social circle. People forty and under have difficulty in certain situations. One of my doctors told me a funny story about her daughter. She is 29 years old and lives in Silicon Valley among the other technology wizards. She came to New York for a visit and needed a ride back to the airport. She asked her mother to go on her Uber site and order an Uber. Her mother told her that she did not have that site. The daughter asked how could she book an Uber without it. Her mother said all you have to do is call a taxi service and ask for a cab. The daughter then said, "What do I say"? Her mother said to ask for a taxi to drive her to the airport. What was so hard about that? It was as if she was from a foreign planet.