Urbanization, clerk type jobs and the information age discourage us to have human contact. But it's expected since in apartment buildings you tend to be overwhelmed with the amount of people who are around you: you wish you could talk and meet with some of them, but it will never happen, because urbanism tend to de-socialize people: apartments are build like prison cells.
Other services like uber, couchsurfing, airbnb, meetup, want to do the opposite.
Other services like uber, couchsurfing, airbnb, meetup, want to do the opposite.