This isn't just happening to people in their 40's, this is happening to people in their early 20's as well who are a generation that became socially inept because of Facebook, TikTok and Myspace.
The entire social life of a 20-something year old revolves around that cell phone in their hand they cannot live without because they have no reason to hang out with friends in person!
Then they go for a job interview at 21 years of age and they can't get through the interview because they sound like a 5 year old speaking to their mother because they've developed no social skills whatsoever over the past 15 years due to their total immersion in electronic social media.
