Alone in the crowded cyber world

It isn’t everyday that you find yourself sitting alone, pondering the multiple facets of your life. Or is it!
As of late, the fact that one is alone has slowly but surely made itself much more apparent. The myriad of friends that one would talk to face to face have disappeared and morphed into “online buddies.” Regular conversations no longer exist. They have regressed to short statements and emoticons. One no longer states whether they are happy, sad, upset, excited or any other emotion. Society simply relies upon a colon, dash and one parenthesis to decide if the interlocutor is content or down on his/her luck. A true verbal expression of feelings is never conveyed.
So, now I find myself here. Alone. I am attempting to converse with you, but there is no flow back from you. Will the future entail relationships with people we have never met and never hope to meet? Will people continue to fall in love online? Has everything become virtual? Will we ever have true contact? Or are we doomed to a fate of acquaintances, friendships and love via a flickering screen of colors devoid of emotional warmth and the soft human touch?