Consider that you may be derailing your own thread.
Some posters are blunt and some shunt.
With the nature of a forum it is frequently slower than IM
I agree with what the
two other posters said about shut-ins, elderly, isolation, or possibly even willingness (depending on one's season of life) it isn't a substitute.
More than that would be hard to say without specificity so don't take it too personally without a bit of context on where something is coming from or some examples.
It is certainly worthy of discussion though
Edit: My spacing keeps messing up somehow, first letter gets highlighted and it starts deleting what I type after that alas.