Devices make people feel lonely

I was reading an article about text only friend, a good article indeed. I liked some of the points the writer mentioned in his article. One of them was:

"But the tragic, isolating thing is that we reach for our devices because we don’t want to seem lonely — which is causing us to avoid our peers and actually be lonely."

We say that we feel lonely if we don't have phones, laptops or PDAs. And we use them to avoid that. Actually, if we hadn't had such devices, we would have looked around and communicate with people. Moreover, I've seen many times when we go to meet a friend in his home, we start using his computer to browse Internet rather than sharing things each other. Thus, these devices are hindering us  from becoming more social.
Another point the writer has mentioned is:

“Everyone wants everyone else to say hi but doesn’t want to be the person saying hi"

I fully agree with this sentence too. I think no reason is needed to justify it. I take it as a premise sentence :).
And finally I knew another new word “fauxting’’ which means nothing but a fake texting.