Communication breakdown

Strange. With all the technology available to us, we seem to be getting worse at talking to each other. Most people these days have a phone, email, the whole works. Yet what do we actually talk about? Is it just me or is it that much harder to express certain things using such impersonal tools? I've being doing a lot of talking via email, text message and instant message of late, but I always walk away thinking I have missed something. That feeling of seeing someone's reaction to the things you say, the spark that can fly when a conversation really takes off. Instead I seem to have fragments. A thought here, another there. Many things said, but somehow incomplete.