Summary Of How Facebook Ruins Friendship By Elizabeth Bernstein

Society today is mainly focused on social media and how many followers/friends you have. Making friends online is much easier in person because it just takes one click and done, you just made a new friend. The virtual number of friends/followers we have on social media can effect an individual self-confidence. In the article “Facebook in a Crowd,” Hal Niedzviecki is a man who does not have many real friends that he connects with, he was a workaholic with a 2-year old child at home.

Some people struggle to find who their true friends are and who they can rely on the most. In the book The Debs by Susan McBride, Laura has trouble accepting who she is and knowing who she can count on. Her best friends always try to make sure she is okay and doesn’t get bullied at school. This helps her grow and achieve her goals throughout the story. The theme of this story is, your true friends will always have your back and accept who you are.

And near half of online teens believe that friendship is improved via using the Internet. “Frequent users of the Internet are more enthusiastic about the friendship-enhancing quality of the Internet – more than six in ten say that it helps ‘some’ or ‘a lot’” (Amanda, Lee & Oliver, 2001). Research by Elisheva Gross of UCLA suggests that those teens who have strong social bond are more likely to take social media or IM as a way to strengthen the pre-exiting relationship. (Elisheva, Jaana & Shelly, 2001)

The Good Sides of Social Network In Neal Gablers “Social Network” many television series are a demonstration of the fantasy life of Americans. Shows on television such as The Brady Bunch shows the average, and so called “perfect” family which supposedly portrays the reality of an American family. However “friendship has become the basic theme of television” (Gabler 356), in which this is not American reality today due to only finding this kind of example on television, and not anywhere else in the world. Gabler also argues in his essay that social media such as Facebook is ruining the natural friendship development that people have used to make long time friendships back in the days without social network. There may be a lot of good examples on why social network is ruining people’s lives, and especially not having real friendships, but you have to look at the positive side

In Cynthia Selfe 's essay she emphasized how access to technology and how its used have impacted how we write and communicate with each other. The two software platforms I will be focusing on are Facebook and Twitter. Both of these platforms are very similar, yet they have a lot of differences as well. On Facebook, people can post status updates, share pictures and message your friends. Facebook is a way for people to stay connected and voice their opinions to their friends and family.

Clearly, these types of relationships are very unfulfilling, unlike real life friendships because the difference between people real life personalities and behaviors versus online behaviors are different. Being a moral person, online and in real life is important because deceiving others in any sense is unmoral. This reflects that, it is important to have real life friendships, because those are the ones that gives the feeling of a relationship that is deep, truthful, and complete. Due to what social networking sites have created, “friendship is something that can exist purely through disembodied interaction mediated by social media” (Eshbach, Teklits, Hoover). Therefore humans naturally desire to have meaningful friendships.

She states that the Internet seemed to make the users feel more alienated. To support her assumption, she provides research findings which confirmed that the use of Internet had a significant detrimental effect of overall well-being. Facebook also cause problems in relationships, by increasing feelings of jealousy. A group of researchers

The Effect of Friendship As the Chinese proverb about an invisible thread says, some people are destined to meet each other. This was the case in the excerpt from An Invisible Thread, written by Laura Schroff, as her close friend, Maurice, recounts the details of when he, as a young boy, met Laura during the time of when he was begging on the streets for change. As the story continues, both Laura and Maurice use a first-person point of view to share what their experience in the relationship has been, and how far they have come. As a result of this, they help us understand their relationship to a greater extent by expressing their true feelings and how they benefited from the relationship.

In her document “ The Fakebook Generation,” later to be published in the New York Times on October 6, 2007, Alice Mathias enters the topic of the most used social networking service worldwide, Facebook. Mathias debates on Facebook’s claim of being a forum for “genuine personal and professional connections” and tries to influence her readers to ask themselves if the website really promotes human relationships. The author illustrates in her document the power and impact Facebook had on the population by convincing to be “a place of human connectivity,” but states her idea of Facebook missing its real reason of enriching human connectivity. Mathias goes on how Facebook became more as an “online community theater” than a functional service tool. She provided examples like people who announce relationships with Chinese food in their status in order to make others laugh instead of providing useful updates.

Hook: (scenario)INTRO Imagine this: you are feeling down because you have an issue with your family and you need someone to talk to but there is nobody. The problem will get worse and worse, generating more sadness and self-hate towards your self. This is the scenario of a person who does not have a true friend to talk with. Friendship has a big impact on the well-being of a teenager life.

In order to evaluate the contribution of qualitative research on friendship, it is crucial to define and have some background of friendship, define and understand qualitative approach and then evaluate its contribution to friendship research. Friendship is considered to be one of the pillars of day to day life starting from childhood to very old age. Friendship is a complex endeavour and can be difficult to define as it may have different meanings to different people at different times. Friendship has different stages and occurs inversely in different stages of life i,e childhood, adolescence, and adulthood friend, long-term friend, best friend, good friend, school friend, college friend and etc. Friendship is a mutual trust and support between

These immediacy of instant communication tools may provide a platform for everyone to voice out and share feelings and thoughts. Social skills and interpersonal relationships may be shaped as we are virtually in touch with the entire world and social networking sites are deemed to be the most efficient and effective mean of communication we have ever had. Social networking sites like Whatsapp, Facebook and Youtube have become such a part and parcel of our daily routines that seems that it is very essential for us now. Therefore, social networking sites have changed our social life

Social Media: Affects Relationships As technology progresses more and more, there have been great changes that have made our lives more easy and efficient. There are many advantages that technology has brought upon us, one in particular is the Internet. The Internet has allowed people to be connected quickly to information and be updated to the issues and happenings around us, but the social networks that have been invented to allow long distance connection have been resulting in negative outcomes for society and our generation. Social media gets in the way of building actual relationships, makes people become inauthentic about their lives and lowers their self-esteem, and has become a dangerous and threatening nature. During these days, it seems as if nobody can live without checking their social media accounts, whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.

Whilst the prowess of having more friends can make our life more fulfilling than being alone, making friendships or friendships alone are hardly attainable; We make friends with the ones we might come across with, or we simply make friends with the ones that are connected to our souls. However, in the article of “Friends, Good Friends, and such Good Friends”, by Judith Viorst, she took another approach to redeem “friendships” differently in her life. By categorization, she mentioned that there are eight categories that were used to define the purpose of having a friendship, the depth of a friendship, and the encounter of a friendship. Although many will judge the perception of having friends by putting them into the bracket of categorization, I feel it is justified to make friends based on places, events and most importantly, luck. Truthfully to be said, it is not easy to make friends whom you can

In Reflections on True Friendship, Andrew O’Hagan talked about the friendship and how the social media replaced the meaning of real friendship. This article presented in an essay form to show the friendship between he and his friend, Mark MacDonald and the effect of social media in nowadays. The author’s wrote this article about the story between he and his friend and the importance and weakness of using social media, especially make friends with other people through social media. This section contains a summary of Reflections on True Friendship.