People Used to Talk
This hardly happened in the 90s:
This is now:
In "modern society" it seems like people speak less (proper speaking, not tapping on "apps"), sleep less, and generally spend less or get a lot less for their money (reward for measurable labour). This means that people are increasingly fatigued and isolated, except in their own minds (they conflate some digits in Facebook with social life and think that Emojis are a good and efficient communication form). Rich communications involve hundreds of muscular organs in people's face, sound, and meanings in that sound (including nuance and intonation).
An inherently divided, isolated society (where people can be inadvertently and involuntarily isolated from peers, e.g. "deplatforming" or "shadowbanning") is better for those who own and control the "platforms", which they 'gamify' (so they can play with people's minds and behaviour).
We kindly remind fellow humans that the goal of a human isn't to add more data to someone else's database (government, GAFAM etc.) and people on their deathbed won't be judged or scored based on faked "popularity" (oligarchs control what goes "viral"), they're to be judged by people who really knew them in person. That requires real human interaction. For a real understanding it takes more than a stream of Emojis and "Stickers".
If pets can live a measurably happy life without gadgets and "apps", why can't humans? Why are so many humans so much more stressed than their cats and dogs? █