Can Online Environment Ever Match the Intimacy Established by Relationships Face-to-Face?

"From Your Own Experience, Can the Online Environment Ever Match the Intimacy Established by Relationships Face-to-Face? Why?"
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Comparison of Intimacy in Online and Face-to-Face Relationships
The modern world has become more nomadic and globalized due to advancements in communication technology. The smashing innovations in technologies have brought massive twists in terms of ease in communications among people. With remarkable innovations in internet technologies, mobile phones, social media applications, voice and video calling facilities, communication protocols, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, VPN, and the development of security soft wares, humans are enjoying a remarkable level of comfort in interactions among relations despite vast physical distances. Now is the time when human beings are trying to make distant communicational experiences equivalent to real-life face-to-face interactions. These technological advancements have given strong hopes that one day scientists will make online communication so realistic and genuine to create an environment that matches the intimacy established by face-to-face relationships. This paper aims to deal with the hindrances in approaching this goal and the prescience of how technological development is promising enough to make it to the point where people can establish the same intimacy in relationships through online communication, which they feel in face-to-face interaction.
It is a common observation that people tend to multitask during online interaction. In a face-to-face setting, talking to someone can gain more attention because of fewer distractions and more involvement due to the body language and sense of approachability. In a digital interaction, the lack of physical presence makes the bond weaker, and people try to reach out to their phones or try to accomplish other tasks during the interaction. Sometimes an unwanted advertisement from a local brand or an invitation from another friend can cause the concentration to be lost, which creates a sense of being unimportant and unwanted and destroys the intimacy among relationships. At the same time, face-to-face interactions create a more valuable and engaging environment because of prompt responses and a sense of availability and attention, which helps to create a better intimacy in relationships.
Adjusting or turning off the notifications, using filters to avoid unnecessary advertisements and pop-ups, and keeping the search engines private can be helpful to avoid such distractions. This issue needs significant research and effort to be resolved yet, but looking at the other factors of technological advancements, it does not seem to be impossible. The development of different computer viruses, which help to delete a particular form of data easily, makes us hopeful to be able to have such mediums that will reduce the distracting factors during an online interaction and thus will help to create the intimacy as it is in a face-to-face scenario.
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