Are Virtual Friends Real Or Real Friends

Friendship is an important asset in the world we live in, the young needs friendship to retain them from error, older people need it to care for them and those in their prime time need it, to do fine actions. No one would choose to live without friends because friendship is very important and it holds cities together.

A Friendship is made up by caring for someone special to you, It’s looking out for them, hanging out with them, and trusting them.

In Faux Friendship, by William Deresiewicz, his argument is that friendships in today’s time are different from earlier times. He argues in his essay that social media websites have destroyed our chances of having real friendships. Also, he claims that technology in general is making us stray away from the actual time it we can spend with real friends. We believe that having more Facebook friends makes us feel good about the number of friends we have. Are these truly our friends?

How has technology and the Internet have brought young people closer together? For today’s teens, friendships can start digitally: 57% of teens have met a new friend online. Social media and online gaming are the most common digital venues for meeting friends. Phone calls are less common early in a friendship, but are still an important way that teens talk with their closest friends.

In this article Rosen uses a plethora of examples and sources to make her argument/ideas credible. Rosen used one of Stanley Milgram’s studies to show how there were “six degrees of separation,” but now with social media people are connected by closer to three degrees of separation, according to Duncan J. Watts. Rosen uses the essay “The Strength of Weak Ties” by sociologist Mark Granovetter to strengthen her argument on how social media is mostly weak ties and not true real friendships. Also she uses a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project that states “ more than half of all Americans between the ages of twelve and seventeen use some online social media coverage of social networking site.” Then Rosen goes on to say how there is a “nearly unbridgeable generational divide, with tech-savvy youngsters redefining friendship while their doddering elders look on with bafflement and increasing anxiety.” This survey helps Rosen’s argument that states how friendship is not the same anymore.

Considering all the friendships lost it is clear to see that technology is destroying our friendships. People are so busy connecting online that they are missing out on new, amazing chareristics in life and on true genuine friendships. Kids mistake their “friends” as true friends on the internet, as a result it leaves them hurt and heartbroken. Online communication can get in the way of creating

Social media allows people to make new friends online, but while making friends online you could get seriously hurt. On social media, like Instagram, people think they make new friends all the time, but people become closer to people to cyberbully them, so it hurts more. Other times there is someone who is a friend they will disguise themselves as

The article “Social Media as Community” “We no longer lose social ties over our lives; we have Facebook friends forever.” (Keith Hampton) Social media has created amazing apps that let us meet people that are exactly how we are ourselves. They have helped many students get relationships that they thought would never happen. “There is little evidence that social media is responsible for a trend of isolation, or a loss of intimacy and social support.” “Social Networking Sites and Our lives.” On the internet there is little evidence that social media has caused an isolation. The internet has made it where we can talk to people far from here that are just like us and usually people don’t lose friends that are exactly like

“‘...a misunderstanding of the very notion of friendship in an age when ‘friend’ is used as a verb...the authenticity of one’s relationships has an enormous impact on one’s health and well-being… ‘It’s easier to say what friendship is not and, foremost, it is not instrumental.’” Friendship in this day and age is automatic or online. Friendship should not be unauthentic in a way where it can impact a person’s well-being or health. The connection between two friends needs to be personal and not through a phone or tablet screen. In the 21st century, the word ‘friend’ is being used as a verb and not as a compliment or label.

Alex Pattakos is right about warning us of the meaning of friendship in social medias because my own researches and experiences has shown that the friends you assume you have in social medias are just numbers rather than true friends.

Virtual relationships are able to bypass these physical barriers and allow for people to control the longevity of their friendship based on the frequency of communication rather than the frequency of physical interaction. That is not to say physical interactions are bad or virtual relationships are in any way better, but a combination of both, depending on the circumstance, is sure to result in a long lasting relationship. For example, I have had friends since kindergarten that I am still in contact with today. Through multiple different circumstances, we were not able to always attend the same schools. If our friendships had stayed in the physical, tangible world, we would have had no communication and probably not be friends as we are now.

Friendship is an integral part of the life of any human being. Most people feel the need to have a person who they can communicate with and talk about their challenges at any given time. Friendship is essential in

Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, and Flicker was invented to keep us in touch and keep us closer to our family and friends. But according to How Facebook ruins Friendships “we took our friendship online” (Bernstein). First we began communicating more by email than by phone and then switched to instant messaging or texting. By joining social Medias online

Social media improves the way people communicate with others. It allows them to meet new people. At the click of a button, millions of strangers all over the world who would have never met otherwise are able to connect with each other. Many people believe that internet friends are not as valuable as real life friendships. However with websites like “skype” and instant messaging sites, long distance friendships can be as intimate as real life friendships because social media allows friends to see each other face to face and spend quality time together whenever they want to. Because of this, internet friendships should no longer be considered taboo and should be seen as normal human relationships, “It’s entirely possible to have hundreds of

It takes time for me to consider someone to be my friend. I am a very friendly person and I like to meet new people but just because I talk to you doesn’t mean that we’re friends. I could very well like you and still won’t call you my friend. I wasn’t born this way but i’ve been in many crazy situations and it took some time for me to distinguish between real and fake friendships. I don’t call someone my friend until I feel like we have bond we can communicate, and I trust them. It all starts with having the same interests as someone. I probably wouldn’t be friends with someone who is into art museums and classical music. Or someone who is a homebody and doesn’t talk. A personality and attitude will show you if