I always find comments like this to be interesting. Simply because they are their own form of hesitation in finding ways to connect change with the familiar. The reaction always seems to be to vilify the online activity and glorify the personal. To me, the middle ground of joining the two and adapting them together is going to lead to a far more socially exciting existence. That requires balance, however and I realize there are certainly people who tip the scales far too far to the digital side. On the other hand, those who refuse to enter the digital era kinda look to people like myself to be those who are just being, for lack of a better word, stubborn.
I've always gone on about how much I value the relationships I have formed through this website. That will always be the case. I have a wonderful personal relationship with many, many people in my life. Thanks to the Internet, I'm able to react with far more people, on a daily basis, than I ever could in my childhood/adolescence. Then, of course, are my friends who live overseas. I will likely never meet them, but I'm OK with that, because it's just a fact of life in this era, and I am content with the digital contact that we have on a regular basis.