My answer to this question is, “No.” You are not interacting with people. You are interacting with their simulacra…
Who did you hang out with the most this week? Honestly, it was my co-worker from India. I sat across from him and went over how the XML interface worked for shipping and receiving computer hardware.
Yet, the very people I look forward to hanging out with the most are the ones whose simulacra I am most acquainted with.
Shouldn’t I be hanging out with my co-worker who has more reality than the images that flit across my screen?
I’ve done so much on the Internet, that I explain life (the real) in terms of technology (the unreal). For a lot of techies, this is the case. Are you a techie and bothered by this?