It is often said that people are more intimate today than in the past due to more surplus in resources and opportunity to meet a more people an account of advanced technology. However, I believe that people in the past were friendlier than in contemporary ages because of two main reasons: the less exposure to the hectic and selfish society and the past trend of settling down in one place for lifetime.
To begin with, the modern greedy society turned people into selfish and only self-caring people, plunging the past friendly characteristic of people. It is obvious that the advancement of technology and globalization increased humans spectrum toward the world greatly. However, this indicates that the amount of work expanded correspondingly and competitors widened from just local people in the past to those of the whole world in the present, decreasing the friendliness in people. In fact, according to a study conducted by Harvard University in 2007, a survey conducted that urban dwellers were 85 percent more hectic in comparison to suburban inhabitants. However it was also disclosed that there is a correlation between hecticness and the ability of humans to be friendly. The more people are in hurry the more they skip to be friendly they regard as unimportant in their lifes. This implies that it is difficult for comtemporary people, who mostly engage in busy activities, to be friendly to others.
In addition, modern people do not stay in one place for a long time. This is because, since workplace constantly change many people move to places near their occupations. Also, with the advancement of transportation people move away when other places serve better living conditions such as education, entertainment or wealth. Thus, people do not have much aqaintance with other village people in the present. However this was different in the past when people mostly settled down in one place for lifetime and knew almost the whole village people, allowing them to be naturally more friendly compared to modern times. As a matter of fact the "National consensus assembly of Korea" revealed that people in the 21 century have a inclination of moving to other places two time yearly on average. On the other hand, people in the early 1960's moved only 0.2 times annually on average. This indicates that, people in the past were mostly deep connected with all the other local people encouraging them to be more friendly, which is in modern society just not possible.
In brief, modern people cannot be friendly because of the today's markets detrimental trait and less settlement in one specific place, depriving them the chance to make a wide range of friends in the neighborhood. As the saying goes "Pie in the sky", not everything, economical as well as love between people, cannot be acquired at the same time.