How Friendship Can Not Be Defined Because No One

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Title? In this essay I will talk about how the term “friendship” cannot be defined because no one can judge other people’s personal value of what a friend is to them. Friendship is used in many contexts because of technology and how it is used from different levels of personal, formal, and informal meaning I believe that “friendship” can be on all three levels. The personal level is the friends who are intimate with you. The personal term for friendships is “intimacy”. The second level that I believe the “friendship” term can be easily used is the informal approach. The informal level categorizes the acquaintances and familiar people that a person knows, but is not that close with. For example, a worker knows his coworker, but is not that close as friends, but can establish a closer “friendship” if it is mutual, thus the word friendship can be placed here. The third level is the formal which means that complete strangers are involved. Through technology, all three levels can be reached separately or together in stages of friendship. Although these are the stages, not one person can define a person’s personal value of what a true friend is.
Although Sherry Turkle declares that, “Friendship is about letting something happen between two people that’s surprising and new…[Social Networking] gives the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy”, Kahn quotes her because she is a sociologist. I critically read the quote to try to understand and evaluate without
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