Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.
we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.