Friendship Relationship

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The link between living near to someone and being friends with them
ABSTRACT
To find a link between living near to someone and being friends with them.Man being a social animal has always wanted company.Our whole lives we keep meeting new people and end up becoming fast friends with some of them.But if we look closely at the present set of friends we have we will realize that most of them consist of those who are always present with us most of the time or live in close proximity to us. Therefore this paper aims to give a detailed study of the association between physical distance and the probability of developing friendship while keeping in account certain other factors related to society and the individual.
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The literature argues that the strength of friendship and social bonds face a decline with the increase in distance between human beings.Those ties that are more dependent on the frequency of interactions often witness maximum decline as the increase in distance creates a hindrance in the regular meetings.(Wellman 1996)
In agreement, Carrasco et al. (2008) state that after accounting for gender, age, income, use of communication technologies and degree of closeness in a relationship, individuals have to be more proactive in seeking opportunities for socialising with those who live more than 35 km away than with those living closer by.
Some research studies claim that with the onset of modern transportation and communication technology,these inventions have only enhanced the magnitude of relations and also diversified social relations.I am in complete solidarity with the findings as in the present scenario we do see instances of friendship being strengthened because of the possibility of reaching and communicating with someone in negligible amount of time. (Dijst,

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