Much like food, water, or shelter, social interaction is a vital aspect of healthy human development, one which can not be neglected without inviting severe harm to the individual. With technology enabling people to communicate almost instaneously with peers across the globe, one would hope the risks of social isolation would be cracked down upon. And yet, the very means which have widened our capability to communicate have devastatingly shallowed our social interactions at the same time. As the expedience of social media allows it to override in person interaction as the preferred means of talking to others, we lose the nuances of person to person interaction which makes true socia fulfillment possible.