It’s not the same as being in person. It’s time-asynchronous, you aren’t using body language or tonality to communicate, and your level of investment is significantly lower. Compare going to hang out a neighbor’s house vs. texting them on social media. One of those is a bigger investment than the other, and people feel it.

If you enjoy living like this, whatever. It seems to be the new normal they want for us. But with the ‘ease’ of communication comes a drawback imo: i don’t think we care the same for someone we’ve only met online. For working together? It’ll be fine. For recruiting them into a risky political project? I doubt it will be very effective.