This article questions the way in which contemporary novels integrate the new forms of sociability arising from the use of digital devices allowing textual exchanges (e-mails and text messages, for example). Representations of the new ways of interacting with others, examined in Nadine Bismuth’s Scrapbook and Karine Glorieux’s Les Charmes de l’impossible, show that the use of technological devices such as cell phones, tablets and computers do not contribute to create proximity, as one might suppose at first sight, but rather create distance and emptiness. It is noted that while these devices act as mediators in the establishment and evolution of social and emotional bonds between characters, they also represent disruptive elements that prevent these relationships from developing harmoniously and lasting.