Anything for attention

To start this off I want to set you up mentally for how I see things, hopefully it will help get the overall point across. I am pretty sure one of the largest problems with society today is that they CRAVE attention. I understand, look i am posting this out to the WORLD, why well because I have been thinking about it for about a week and i feel like i need to express my feelings. But also because I want to have a 'conversation' about it. lastly because I think my thoughts are important. Ok so that last part might be a little narcissistic, but it sets up how i think most people think about themselves. Now more to the point. I have found two things that i see on a regular basis that strike me as interesting. I feel that they are some how connected. But I can not quite solidify in words what i feel is connecting them. I am approached by two groups of people. The first is the group that throws headphones on and zone out any and every other thing in their world. The second is a group of people that no matter the situation is doing ANY thing to get people to look at them, listen to them, and interact with them. The thing that I can't quite figure out it that there is an overlap between the two groups. These people put their headphones on to eliminate themselves from the world and then take the headphones off and force themselves with all their might into the world that they have so desperately tried to avoid only moments before. These are just thoughts, to get them out and maybe get some feedback. Not to come to an end all be all decision about the motives. thanks