Is Digital Contact Helping Loneliness?

Almost a quarter of the population says they have no one to talk to. Digial contact is not helping, actually it's making us more lonely. We can't even try to remedy loneliness whith actual in person interaction. So does digital contact help at all? Does it count even a little bit? There's a huge difference between interacting in person and interacting on line. It doesn't feel as good. The body language, where you echo each hers movements, is missing. And even ways of connecting on line are different one from the other....