I need to second this. Not necessarily with reddit, but the sensation that relating genuinely to other people has been replaced with articles or posts. My friends are techies, so conversations inevitably start with "hey did you see...?" followed by a link to an article from a website or blog that my friend knows we both read, and that I definitely have already read. And since that article has a comment thread, our conversation has been presaged for us. Everything has already been said, and when this pattern repeats many times, eventually we skip the conversation and just go right to "weird" or "crazy" or "lol" or "i know, rite?". Make sure to keep an eye out for the most controversial comment (even amount of upvotes and downvotes), that is sure to be the most interesting take. The more comments the article has, the better.

I like my friends, but I feel that there are aspects of the internet (and I guess the dark cloud of capitalism, as pointed out in other comments here) that make interacting with people feel less special.