"shallow connection" is correct and usable in written English.
You may use this phrase to describe a relationship that is not deep or meaningful. For example, "The two had a shallow connection that faded away within a few months."
Despite the shallow connection with Singlefjord, the horizontal currents through the channel are significant.
A central characteristic of pre-eclampsia is an abnormal implantation that has been attributed to a shallow connection between the placenta and the endometrium (Roberts and Cooper, 2001).
In the right hemisphere, the intraparietal sulcus consists of two partly parallel segments that are joined by a shallow connection (Figs 1, 3, 4 and 7), unlike any of the brains figured by Connolly (1950), but somewhat similar to the 'double parallel pattern' illustrated by Ono et al. (1990, p. 67) as representative of 12% of the right hemispheres in their sample.
Most seemed shallow connections, and the excuse for connecting was that random meetings, mutual friendships or past jobs inflated my friend count.
These days, however, it strikes me that shallow connections can be as meaningful as deep ones.
Those with low-density networks can have a vast array of friends, but if the network gets too distended you are left with nothing but a dispersed multitude of shallow connections.
Despite all the worries about privacy, targeted advertising, and shallow connections, Pew finds that, overall, Americans are in an unmitigated love fest with the information superhighway.
Someone who aggressively networks and builds up tons of shallow connections could be mistaken for an influencer even if no one believes them.
Adults could defend themselves by pointing out that checking email is often a job responsibility and criticize young people's micro-interactions on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat as shallow connections that lack the depth of face-to-face conversations.
It makes it really easy for people to have these shallow connections rather than actually being in touch with people, or actually really participating in each other's lives.
Of course, such behavior makes our classes run more smoothly, but often at the expense of shallow teaching and shallow connections with our students.
