Ironically you're only acknowledging the toxic minority of the internet. If anything, if you can't make use of it to find and make friends, colleagues, and family - you are the maladapted one.

The internet provides you with a dozen lifetimes worth of information so you improve yourself. Far beyond what your yokel neighbors could teach you. The need for a extended family is still here and you can compensate with the internet for being born in a shithole country or flyover state.