I try, at least. :) I'm absolutely not saying that the Internet is magically benign -- I've cried myself sick and held decade-long grudges over things people said to me online, and on occasion have hurt people badly with things I've said online. The Internet is just a series of tubes a massive set of communication tools, which people can use to communicate for good or ill or cats or whatever.

The idea I'm disagreeing with is the one that people using the Internet through a phone or computer or whatnot are communing with the devices (that's what games are for) and that this is necessarily a bad thing. I think we're communicating with other people via the devices, and it's up to us to make that a good thing.