We are more reachable than any generation before us and yet increasingly incapable of reaching each other. We send voice notes instead of confessions, reactions instead of reassurance, screenshots instead of vulnerability. Love now unfolds through glowing rectangles: typing indicators, read receipts, disappearing messages, curated playlists, and algorithmically suggested memories. Somewhere along the way, intimacy became entangled with visibility. To be seen online began masquerading as being known.
