Chat systems have emoji reactions now and that's good because sometimes someone says something funny and you laugh and you want to convey that and

🦝 Hot tap full of mousetraps [😂3(🐰🐯🦊)]

Is better than

🦝 Hot tap full of mousetraps
🐰 haha
🐯 ha
🦊 hah

but they still miss out on a lot of nonverbal interaction and this leads to stilted introductions, people blunder into convos all "🐰 hi, I really like lettuce, are there any other lettuce enjoyers in today," there's nothing subtle about just barging right in like that, whereas IRL there'd be all kinda eye contact and head movement and suchlike that'd extend invitation or grant social permission etc

Y'know how when you're in a room and you're looking around from person to person and someone else is doing the same and your eyes meet and you have to decide instantly how to react, whether to skate on by or do the little smile or whatever, well I think when you're stroking your feed and someone else's post is up, if they're also on their phone on the toilet then you both get a big flashing red box that says

EYE CONTACT
you have made eye contact with 🐰, here are your options
* Look down and fidget
* As above but with brief shocked expression first
* Skate on quickly and hope they didn't notice you looking (note: 🐰 is now looking at these same options)
* Downward head nod
* Upward head nod
* Head jiggle
* Hold eye contact expressionlessly for one second and move on
* Smile with lips only and move on
* Smile with eyes and move on
* Smile with entire face and do not move on
* Smile with teeth and do not move on
* Stand up, slap hands on table and shout FRIEND and do not move on
* Jump on table, remove shirt, scream FRIIIEEENNND and move on

And when you selected a reaction you'd get a 1996 bowling alley quality animation to go with it

This sounds like a horrible nightmare but in reality 🐰 would message you and say 🐰 hey, did you just get that same flashing red box as I did? That's fucked up, right? And you'd say 🦝 Fucking hell totally, it nearly gave me a heart attack, who the fuck came up with that

And you'll have made a friend