Yes, but there's also an important element of presence in environments you wouldn't have had access in your life without the technology. The loss of non verbal

Yes, but there's also an important element of presence in environments you wouldn't have had access in your life without the technology. The loss of non verbal communication was also a thing in epistolary communication, a common practice for all social classes (even those who couldn't read or write would manage to get letters or postcards written for them); and that was considered a cultivated social activity, not at all dehumanizing either.