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> If it weren't for HN, you and the parent probably would have never met.

Absolutely, and I admit as much in the first sentence!

Degrade was the wrong word to use, but my point is bad thing about technology is that I have no connection to grimtrigger, just a reaction to what was written. Of course, that's also the beautiful thing about technology - it's about the message, not the messenger.

So while the article's analogy was a poor opening, I think the article is spot on, in contrast to grimtrigger. Pre-internet people were communicated with the long lost art of letter writing, and while latency was high, depth of communication was often superior.