The problem is the medium itself. The internet, as much as it was believed to be a tool for bringing people together, also largely serves to keep our interactions shallow. Anonymity provides malevolent sociopathic sadists to cause significant amounts of harm pseudo anonymously, making the kind of vulnerability required to form meaningful connections much more risky than it is in real life encounters. Stories of people meeting great friends and spouses online are outliers and selection bias.
If you want to meet people, the internet is a terrible way to do it.
The internet is also a terrible way to exchange information securely. With encryption, it's possible. There was a time, when security vulnerabilities weren't blamed on the hacker but on the system developer. Why feel limited by malevolent sociopathic sadists when this creates the opportunity to add to the medium and create something better?
If you want to meet people, the internet is a terrible way to do it.