Maybe, or it might be nice to do some token for them, either individually or together. Nothing too personal to seem as if you're trying too hard but something to make sure they know you thought of them.
That's true, I suppose. It's easier to hide behind your words when your facial expressions aren't needed to back them up. But at their depths, human beings are still very much the same as they've always been. How they are able to interact, the opportunities they're given, those are all very different, I grant you that. But it's what they choose to do with all of that that makes people entirely the same.