A Wall Street Journal article titled "College Students Have to Learn to Make Small Talk Again" [https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-students-forgot-how-to-talk-to-each-other-11644627316?st=xvyy5prs97qhn5h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink] got us obsessing about the ways social media. the ubiquity of smartphones, and of course a global pandemic have changed the ways people interact with others in public.