Are people today "robotic"? Has modern tech killed personalities?

[Who Me?]

I was on the subway and later walking down the street and I realized that EVERYONE was on their phones or tablets. Either listening to music, texting, calling, reading a book, watching a show. I read articles that some people don't even live anymore, they use their free time to lead a second life on the Internet, stalking people on facebook, focusing on improving their image on the Internet instead of their actual life.

My 65 year old coworker said: "I feel sorry for your generation. Your generation is a bunch of robots"

Yikes. That makes me want to quit all social media and stop using my phone. I'm ashamed lol