Plutarch: The Role Of Friendship In Modern Society

In society today we hope that individuals will take the time to support you rather than go against you, but that isn’t always the case in our society. Social media nowadays effects the way many individuals go about their friendships. Many individual try to paint this picture that their life is perfect but in reality it is far from it. “Social media is harmless if we are careful to remember that simple fact. It’s powerless if we neglect the inclination to compare and criticize our own lives through the falsified images we too are guilty of creating” (Herrick).

And last but not the least I totally agree with him that all Facebook users shouldn’t only use Facebook for their entertainment but to become active instead. He then depended on many researches (some of unknown sources) and a life story of some kid to claim that Facebook makes us sad and less satisfied than usual, and the less we used it the less we feel that way, here comes my points of disagreement with the author. Despite the fact that the author throughout the article compromises exciting and valid arguments concerning how can Facebook makes us sad, some of his arguments need to be inspected more closely as they are feeble and unsupported, full of false

The article, “The End of Solitude” is written by William Deresiewicz in which he enlightens that how we live our lives. This article is based on the ending of boredom and how it would bring change in our daily life. Solitude, in other words I would say it’s an elimination of boredom from life by taking various kinds of technology, for example, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and etc. Technology brings a huge change in people’s boring lives; therefore, they are busy with different kinds of social activities. Technology also connects people from all over the world.

Social media is very impressionable especially for those individuals who are insecure and want to feel the need of being wanted or being loved by someone. Romantic relationships shouldn't be so dependent on social media because its influence causes them to fail or endure problems. The overall obsessiveness of having social media as a guide in relationships is detrimental to its success. Couples that are so focused on the aspect of social media tend to neglect the element of communication. The idea of a couple that is successful relies on their ability to effectively communicate with each other.

The use of computers allows people to publicize their conversation on social media which limits the amount of false information people receive and sparks the urge to protest. This allows for both parties to express their beliefs to the public and allows for other members of society to educate them and tell them whether their thoughts are ethical or not. Having a conversation does not make a social change, it just sparks the movement towards it. Appiahs idea of cosmopolitanism is only valid when someone is communicating with another person in their generation because they have a similar upbringing and

Have you ever thought about how technology has affected today 's society? Here 's what I think, I think it has had a negative effect on the way people interact with others. Everybody thinks they have friends but they are really just friends on social media. You also don’t even have to leave your house to go get groceries anymore. You can have anything you need delivered right to your front door.

Tectnolgy has taken over the world these days with social media and people might have had friends lost because of this. “Between the time we spend on Facebook, Twitter and Words With Friends, I feel like we sacrifice the time we used to use to bond—but it 's not like either of us is willing to give up those things” (Morris par. 3). Morris is talking about if people make time hanging out with their friends they will do it, but once they get to hangout with their friends they don 't talk face to face they normal text each other. Or instead of having fun together in real life they play games together like Words With Friends. “Some wonder, though, if the technological way of meeting people today—through apps

However despite being constantly connected, people are still feeling alone so why? With the ability to be able to keep in touch with everyone why are people lonelier than ever? The issue with social media is that people only share the good things in their life and never the bad making people judge themselves based off of other people’s so called “perfect” lives, it also makes others try to keep up with the same standard as their friends making them want to post only the good things in their life which can also make people viewing their profile not truly connect with that person as they don’t see the person’s ‘true life’ but only the good moments.

People often act in less sociably acceptable ways online and it can be hard to express true emotions and feelings. One can question how someone could fall in love with someone that he or she had never met. However, the hyperpersonal perspective describes how some people find it easier to communicate behind a computer. This may be due to issues such as a lack of confidence or sense of not belonging in the society in which they live in.

Nicholas Carr and Clive Thompson both talk about technology and the impacts on it, but through two different views. Yet I still believe either way that technology can negatively affect your social life and relationships you hold with others, but especially friends and family. Nicholas Carrs essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” he argues that using the internet as our search engine and reading source is altering the way that we read and process information. “Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives-or exerted such broad influence over our thoughts-as the internet does today,” (Carr 321). Carr supports his argument with stories of himself and other peoples experiences of how the internet is warping their abilities to do simple tasks such as reading a text message, an article online, or even something in print

In their article the authors put important information that was interesting but they didn’t go in debt over those part. For example psychologists have linked text messaging with depression and anxiety among college students. This was something they say that was interesting to me but they didn’t explain how these two things are linked. Another thing that the authors are lacking in are that they didn’t have a theses they started to write about how Facebook was the biggest social media site people visited. They should 've write a thesis because it explains to the reader what their going to talk about and since they didn’t do that I started to get confused from the

First of all, friendship is created through freedom; the reason for this is because freedom involves the privilege of choice. Due to this privilege, we are able to select what people will be our friends and who will not. Lewis explains that, in friendship, there is no moral requirement to find friends or become someone’s friend. In addition, designating certain people as friends can be potential dangers for both individuals and society as a whole. In addition, one may believe that when one has companions then he or she has friendship.

Friendship, a word strong enough to, at one time, be a state nickname and a word that affects every aspect of society. But what is friendship? One might define friendship as an emotional tie or linkage between two people. This statement is true. However, friendship should not be left so impersonal.