Girls satirized how smartphones degrade face-to-face social interaction

Evidence

Girls was the first TV show about millennials made by a millennial, yet it leaned heavily on self-deprecation. The humor often stemmed from the characters’ insecurities and narcissism. Hannah quickly pivots her conversations into diatribes about her own victimization, while everyone struggles through awkward and porn-influenced sex. The show was one of the first to capture how smartphones were degrading social interactions, satirizing the modern hierarchy of communication: “The lowest, that would be Facebook, followed by GChat, then texting, then email, then phone. Face to face is of course ideal, but it’s not of this time.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 346