It is, in fact, all insulation. The technology, that is. It cuts out face-to-face, vid-to-vid, voice-to-voice, and even direct text as in sms or email. To the point that agents will be advocating for users instead of people even typing back to one another. Until and unless it affects the reproduction cycle, and I think it already has, people will fail to socialize since there is also zero customary expectation to do so (that was the surprisingly good thing about old world customs), so only the overtly gregarious will end up doing it. Kind of a long tailed hyperbolic endgame but, well, there it is.
Edit: one point i forgot to make is that it has already become absurd how different someones online persona or confidence level is when they are AFK, its as if theyve been reduce to an infantile state.
> how different someones online persona or confidence level is when they are AFK
It's an interesting thing I've noticed as well. At least in some cases it's due to constraints. Written communication invariably affords the opportunity to step back and think before sending. Many social contexts do not, making them almost entirely different skillets.
Edit: one point i forgot to make is that it has already become absurd how different someones online persona or confidence level is when they are AFK, its as if theyve been reduce to an infantile state.