Where is our sense of community?

I'm sitting here. trying to remember the last time i felt a sense of community in my neighborhood and i'm finding it incredibly hard... Still thinking...... I bet if i was to ask anyone my age, when they last experienced community, they would probably find it difficult as well. I'm having to go as far back to when i was 11 to recapture any sense of community, that says a lot about us as people. Right now, I don't even know anyone on my street, whereas 7 years ago, i knew just about everyone and was always in and out of people's homes. The memory that sticks out to me the most(finally remembered something) is the time some hooligans from a couple of streets further down from ours knocked over little Denise Coal's bin and we all got together put the bin back in its place and then proceeded to not only knock their bins over but also pour everything out(What a badass thing to do). We were all united and that sense of community was really buzzing in us. Think I only did that because I fancied her though, but the point is we were united.

Another memory that sticks out(They are flooding back now!!) is summer evenings, playing football on the green near my house with almost every kid, the ones who weren't playing were in wheelchairs, shout-out Aaron, Chanel and Danny. Anyways back to the point, we would be playing and then one after the other, the adults would all start coming out either to play with us or just sit on the grass and watch us as we play. There was a real sense of togetherness within us but that era is now long gone.

I remember the times when I wanted to see if my friend Larry was home i just scream his name out the window, something that if I were to do now I'm sure i would get ridiculed for. Nowadays when my little brother wants to check for his friend, he either calls, text, Facebook, bebo, tweets or skypes him, none of this requires him to get off his lazy backside and go to his frontdoor.

The Internet is a major factor in this change because that is where the younger kids who can make a neighborhood a community spend most of their time and in doing this they are turning their social activity on the internet into a community. For example, on Facebook, when someone writes something insultive about your friend on their wall, you and your group of friends will attack them in order to defend them, notice how this is similar to what my street did for Denise Coal back in the day. This leads me to my conclusion that community isn't gone. it has just moved from the streets to the internet. Even though i say this, is there not a way where a balance can be reached between the two??