I despise the modern phones and internet

[Infraviolet]

The only reason older people drop everything to react to a phone, but young people don't is because young people were holding the phone already, and have sunken in to a domain far beyond mere phone calls, infact I suspect many have never made or received one.

[tooki]

The only reason older people drop everything to react to a phone, but young people don't is because young people were holding the phone already,

That is absolutely not true.