People Are Better Than Real Friends Essay

This debate is about weather people have more or less friends because of technology.

All around the world people have phones and with that comes social media. People do have less

real friends because of texting apps or social media. By going out into the world and meeting

new people you can actually build up your social skills and confidence. A human being can be

more comforted by talking things through with people face to face instead of over facetime or

texting. You could just go out for a coffee instead of texting for 3 hours. You need to have real

friends that you can trust and talk to in time of need.

People should be more socially active instead of being on their phone 24/7. People text

their friends for 3 hours when really you could be out grabbing

Like meeting up somewhere. It would

be hard going through life with friends over the internet because when you’re sad they can’t give

you a hug and completely comfort you. People these days often have most of their friends

behind screens and not in real life.This doesn’t just apply to our friends; it applies to the world

around us. It should come as no surprise that face-to-face interaction is proven by studies to

comfort us and provide us with some important sense of well-being, whether it’s with friends or

friendly cashiers in the checkout line of Albertson’s. That’s actually the motivation behind

Albertson’s decision last year to take all of the self-checkout lanes out of its stores: an eerie lack

of human contact. (Bryner). Studies have proved that people do lack human contact. For

example, Albertsons took out all self-checkout lanes out if it stores so people will have more

human contact with the world and each other. Face-to-face interaction is supposed to comfort

us humans and honestly it can be depressing just having online friends and no one you can turn

to in times of trouble or in a need of