Have we fallen so far and is the hour so late?

Here is my question. Is it that we no longer feel secure enough to step outside in the world and have discussions with people we meet everyday that we find ourselves drawn to randomly blurting our deepest most ponderous questions onto message boards like this one. In other words have we lost the need for the viseral experience caused by human to human contact, or is work so dreadfully dull that we must fill our time with frolics and nonsenses like this so as to asuage the need to run into the company broom closet and sit crying in the corner during our thirty minute lunch break?