Digital Inwardness and Digital Intimacy

[Dover]

I'd like to know your thoughts about this. As for my own thoughts and questions:
There are pros and cons to any new technology. But I think it's important to understand how it's affecting us individually and as a collective so that we consciously find the right balance in our lives rather than living unconsciously. "Reality" is only what we choose to make it, and that requires that we know ourselves.
While we are all connecting and connected like no other time before, is there also a digital divide happening where we are actually losing intimacy with our loved ones and ourselves?
If at the end of a long day of texting, chatting, online discussions, etc. you are left feeling somehow hollow or alone, is that not important and symptomatic of a need for a change or a better balance?
Is true intimacy even possible in this medium, whether or not you maintain anonymity? What might create a better balance for you?
Is, for instance, DU truly a 'community'?
If so, what makes it so? If not, what's lacking?
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Digital Inwardness and Digital Intimacy

The higher-order capacity for inwardness and intimacy is vital for humanity, yet these characteristics are evolving away as technology advances.

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"...all your time extending your consciousness and your senses into that realm beyond the here and now you can never get to that deep place because you are allowing your inner life to atrophy really, to wither.
And that's a very high price to pay."

http://bigthink.com/ideas/24160