[southernplaces7]

I agree that it can be, and that this can be terribly depressing when you start to believe it's the case in your life (it's happened to me before), but even then at least there's another human being on the other side of the equation with whom the chance of opening a crack is possible against some forming emotional blockade.

Now imagine trying to connect with a person, investing an emotional trickle in ideas of chemistry and possibility, to discover you weren't even speaking to them at all. Their mindless, stone-unconscious AI was snowing you along. So much worse. Brrrr.

The empty people who use these tactics deserve the desolate romantic life they seek to avoid.