Just the other day there was this Psychcentral article about a study showing that introverts spend more time chatting online (and also maybe develop symptoms of addiction). That was definitely true for me in college, anyway. In many regards I became closer to my friends because we'd idle away our time chatting online more than in person. Probably has to do with maintaining control over the situation. And when I see articles decrying how technology is making people more distant from each other, it seems obvious to me that those authors are simply not utilizing the social tech in the same way I did, and the way most kids are nowadays.