I have no friends in what you call real life, nor any friends here in cyberspace. Some think they are my friends here in cyberspace, but truth be told they could die and no tear would I shed.

The advantage of cyberspace is that none of us here are real, merely abstract personaes. One can choose what personality one wishes, one can change one's identity at will, in fact none of you have any way of knowing if a single profile is really controlled by a single person. First impressions are irrelevant and consequences are non-existent. Reactions are all planned in advance.

So in essence nobody on cyberspace is real. And the deal clincher is the fact your brain doesn't know that so it rewards positive interaction the same as it would out there making cyberspace a low risk high reward social atmosphere.

What does that mean in regards to our humanity? It doesn't mean anything except perhaps less ability in actual offline conversations and lower social drives.

I think it will actually be advantageous, we will adapt to be less social, which means more independence and independence is always better then dependency in my book.