People adapt to their environment, and if their environment is dominated by shallow, fleeting interactions, it's hard to imagine that it doesn't have at least a

People adapt to their environment, and if their environment is dominated by shallow, fleeting interactions, it's hard to imagine that it doesn't have at least a temporary effect. The thing is, I don't see it being the dominant force in the life of healthy people. Young or old, your majority of social interactions won't be online, and you're going to be more shaped by consequential interactions. Friends and family are just going to exert more pressure on who you are, and how you behave, than distant people you don't really know. For a healthy person. For someone who is very isolated for one reason or another, then it can probably get very strange and unpleasant. That strikes me more as another symptom of whatever isolates, rather than an underlying cause though.