Do you think Fluther would be less addictive if we were all in person having these conversations?

I asked this question here and was asked to make it a separate question.

I wondered, “What if we were in person having these conversations? Just a hypothetical. If we all lived in the same town or something, and regularly met to talk about interesting things… would Fluther still be an addiction then?

Or is it the internet interface that somehow changes it from just talking into an addiction?” Discuss.