Deep and Shallow: Today's Social Paradox

I've noticed something quite distinct and unique about today's youth, a strange paradox that occurs within today's young social patterns: youth today, if you generalize them based on the majority, are both deep, fulfilled, progressive, and enlightened, as well as shallow, both at the same time (once again, in general, not in entirety).
We're deep in the sense that we wish to know much more about everything than previous generations would have been, searching for higher purposes and better detail in anything, and we demonstrate this quality quite prominently; we're fulfilled in the sense that we understand there is much more to life to come, and that we're going to take that initiative to do so, most likely once our schooling is complete; we're progressive in the sense that we implement a degree of social justice in our daily lives, and treat anyone with at least general respect, regardless of perceived social stance; and we're enlightened in the sense that we are aware of arbitrary stances and events that have taken place in the past, and have learned from the mistakes of previous generations and are sure not to re-implement the conditions that lead to such mistakes, as well as the fact that we're always looking for higher experiences.
But on the other side of things, we're shallow. How so?
Some of us still do reject people based on perceived social stance, not responding to them in an entire manner as would be expected to do for someone else, thus, in some cases, causing emotional pain; some of us have decided it's much better to ignore other peoples problems, which is fine if they're constantly over-dramatic or always negative, but some don't even wish to help out friends, let alone acquaintances, with personally large occurrences, such as helping them through a break-up, being disowned as a friend by an individual or group, losing a loved one or a close friend, or other such personal tragedies. Some decide it's better that they sit back and act as if they don't care, whether they do or don't, for their own personal reasons.

Others decide they'd rather go home and sit on the internet or watch TV after they're done at school or work then spend time with friends who really want, or need to spend time with a peer for different possible reasons, and those that do spend time with peers after work or school hours, do tend to, like most of the rest of this generation, spend hours upon hours on Facebook, MySpace, Tagged, or some other alternative social networking website, or an IM chat platform like Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, or Skype.
That's not to say that these social networks are bad; it's to say that they're bad in the large doses that today's young society uses them.
Alongside over-usage of the internet, a big majority of (not only) my generation spend hours upon hours watching TV, doing nothing active or productive, instead opting to find out what's next on Lost, Grey's Anatomy, or UFC. Once again, that's not to say that these are all bad in small doses, but they are life-numbing at the rate at which people these days enjoy them.