>Do you remember life before the internet? Being in your own world, you could see the fake empath coming from a mile away. Didn't need a phone to know they were phony.

Absolutely. And this is what I see as a growing problem in society, where the screens have undermined the very skills we need to interact with each other, both the positive and the negative. Many of the young are so corruptible, because they haven't the socially-formed defenses to see the true nature of what they are consuming, or what they are doing.