Kids 2011! a blissful ignorance??

Most of my posts start with a nostalgic recalling of the past and the current contexts have probably given me concrete reasons for this. Remember the days when me and people of my age would come back home on summer evenings with happy tans and winter holidays were of joyful travelling. Seldom i return home thinking that once atleast i will see the roads that i grew on, filled with noisy, notorious and high-spirited kids but that seems to be a lost cause!
Taking about lost, there were days when i used to get lost too... in a garden while playing hide n seek with my street buddies or on a paper while writing a letter to my pen pal. Now i see all the teenagers lost on a 'counter strike' or  mobile applications. Do i sound like an ancient grandma to you?? naaah! i am talking about something that happened hardly 21 years back. When me and people my age used to know the meaning of a bruised knee, fearing Dettol anti- septic, Covering each others asses for all the skipping breakfast, sneaking a stray puppy home, having an extra candy and being KIDS!
when recently a 11 year old asked me "do you know to play on a game boy" (teasingly) i replied, "do you know Ruskin Bond??, Do you know the nook and cranny of the pace where you stay? do you know what innocence is?" well, i said all that in my mind! typically, i smiled an all knowing smile, ruffled his hair and walked away.... I frankly do not know how to react to the increasingly tech savvy, forward and not to mention, down right boring generation of teens and children.
I write this today because of a special reason, very cose to my heart, Kids. Though i stay a safe 50 meters away from any infants, the 4 year upwards are the ones who concern me. Where are we going wrong? because we must be somewhere for the kids these days to have become so much like their gaming characters; dependent, choosy, reclusive and unfriendly.I was baffled when on a bus trip recently i tried to strike a conversation with a school uniform clad teenage girl when i received a prompt middle finger shown to my face.... are we responsible for all the coldness that is oozing out of them or do we blame the media. Like one of my cousin says, the newspapers carry out messages to start a work out regime, rub our asses at the gym etc. but does anyone bother about mentioning, stop KFCing, Mc Donalding the younger generation? Its all lobbied somewhere! and the parents these days seem to be blissfuly overlooking the abyss that they are pushing their kids into... blinded by the urge to be up-to-date and trendy, the parents are sucking out the innocence and individuality of their kids and making them into cloned zombies!