no current system/application/internet thing exists to make the experience of 'you and all of your friends visiting the same varying virtual destinations a social experience' is the disconnect. Facebook only offers you your info for sale, and a way to consistently communicate in recognizable patterns globally through a single identity, not a real social experience. modern research (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-electric-field/ - not the original link i read on this but the first i was able to find quickly) has shown that individual's brain's electrical fields when in proximity. If Vegas would give me odds, I'd be willing to bet that what our brains are currently tuned to interpret as a truly "social" experience is reliant on proximity and some sort of interaction of the electrical fields. or... or... i shouldn't post slashdot comments on St. Patty's Day.

HA... ha.... wait... that's seriously not funny.