Quite apart from our donations to Sundae's memorial fund, and her own contribution to and enrichment of our lives (and ours of hers) via the internet, and the time
we bought Toad a car, I have other friends for whom [other] social media has literally been a life-saving, health-saving resource. The picture is just not that simple.
Like escalators did not replace stairs, and e-readers will not replace books, e-interaction will not replace IRL-interaction. They all complement each other.