Is There a Distancing Effect on Loneliness?

Survey data has suggested that, especially for the millennial generation and other adults, there is a great deal of reported loneliness. We have an incredible amount of time spent in ciber space. And i believe that the psychological distancing can make people feel lonelier than they would have felt had they spent exactly the same amount of time with that person face to face. So i think that the social element needs to be explored and researched even more heavily.