Spoken words versus Tech words...

In my day to day conversations, I have noticed how people are not really talking anymore.  When I say talking, I mean speaking with words out loud.  Instead, people are glued to their phones and computer screens as the central means of communication.  What happened to writing letters? What happen to enthusiastic evening conversations? Has the spoken word become out dated?

I don't know about everyone else, but I miss talking to people. Thanks to my friends, I have learned how to text and converse via the recent tech communications.  As many people already know, I am an English Literature major.  I love reading and writing.  As I have also discussed before, I miss people writing letters and writings out their thoughts and tribulations.  Anyway, what do you all think about people talking via technology?  What are the pro's and con's of the technological takeover?

Writer's Block

So I don't know if any of my fellow English Graduates or any of my fellow writing piers are having this problem, but I am finding it extremely difficult the last couple days to get writing.  I have written about my frustration in my journal and I have gone through several notebook pages of scribbles, which now sit crumbled in my trashcan or on the floor for Lady to play with. 
The phrase came to me that "in order to be a good writer, you have to be a good reader" this weekend, so I started attacking my resent treasures from Barnes and Noble.  I finished another Nora Robert's novel, Honest Illusions, which was really really good.  It hit that romance novel meets mystery need in my heart, but it didn't exactly fill my tank enough to begin writing again.  So I am now currently reading Maria Fiorato's The Botticelli Secret.  It has an exciting and action packed beginning with questions needing to be answered and a mystery to be figured out.
When we hit writers block... what do we do?
I am currently reading books and making a lot of notes to try and jump start my creativity.  What about you?  What have you done to get the creativity flowing?