It is true that young people are becoming less and less able to communicate with others, but I don't think the Internet is the only reason. I think society is also to blame. These days, we don't usually talk with people we don't know well such as neighbors. The cell phone may contribute to causing that kind of distance. On a train, you will find most people paying attention to their cell phones with apparently no concern toward other people.
Because we are not good at communicating with others, many of us don't have people to tell our problems to and feel very lonely. I was in such a situation in junior high school. I used to hate my family and didn't have friends whom I really liked and could trust. I had friends hanging around, but I was always afraid of being ignored or bullied. I had nobody to talk to about my worries. It's not that I had serious problems; I was just was tired of living.
During high school, there there were two students from different schools near my school who killed themselves. I've heard it's because they were bullied and had problems with their future. One of them jumped from a building and, a month later, the other committed suicide by hanging himself.
Adults, especially family members and people at school, act like they care about young people, but they don't actually do anything. They say they don't know what to do -- and I don't even know what I could do if my friends wanted to kill themselves -- but I will at least try to listen and help them deal with their problems as hard as I can.
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