> Lonely young people are supposed to suffer for their sin of being unacceptable to the masses.

The solution to that problem is not push fake e-friends on them. That's like "Feeling sad? Try heroin, it will make you feel good!"

And honestly, your take sounds like the kind of pseudo-empathetic sales pitch of someone trying to push a technology, and block things that could stand in the way of making money from its adoption.