This is a really interesting topic. I'm 54 and have used computers since the early '80's. I like my cell and regularly text friends and family. Gaming and Facebook have no interest for me, and i don't think that's about age. I never liked gaming, Oregon Trail, LSL or even Pong. I camp, shoot, reload and my most important hobby, reading. I've never played a game that was more fun than a good book. It seems that many "younger people these days" (here we go...) don't have/take the time to read or even just sit and think. Constant entertainment and stimulation are rewiring our brains in ways we don't yet understand....And yes, I think we will be the worse for it.
At 39, I'm 15 years your junior - am I "younger people"?
I have a *LIBRARY* of hardcover and paperback books (mostly novels, but some instructional and non-fiction as well) - more than will fit on the shelf space we have available in the house, actually - PLUS the hundreds of ebooks I carry around on my phone everywhere I go. Among other hobbies, I draw, design, and build movie-grade costumes for fun, and I read VORACIOUSLY, probably into the thousands of pages per week, EVERY week. Oh, and I enjoy computer gaming, too, when I have the time for it. Just finished the new downloadable content update for Left 4 Dead 2 last night, while switching around to nightshift - single-player only, though.
My 15 year old stepson is a virtual XBox addict - he'd play Halo all weekend if we'd let him. He also reads pretty heavily - he carries a book with him every day to and from school. He doesn't read as fast as I or his mother, but he does pretty well. Among other things, he liked MHI a lot. He hasn't read MH Vendetta yet, because I don't have it in deadtree format yet.
There're two more counterexamples for your anecdotal collection...