Since Andrew Weinreich’s Six Degrees in 1997, the social media revolution has all but replaced physical social interaction. Two-and-a-half decades later, young men are women are much more likely to communicate through text messages, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, or Facebook posts than to actually converse in person. In this article, I will discuss my view of the impact of this paradigm shift in interpersonal relations. Smartphones are so prevalent in today’s society that you would be hard-pressed to find someone without one either in their hand or readily available. Even young children can be seen scrolling through the posts and messages of their friends on a daily basis. Technology is becoming…