Change of Communication with Technology

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Society today relies on technology for far too many things that are not necessary. Instead of human contact and face to face interactions and communication that have been used since the beginning of human existence it has become strictly email and networking based communication. There is no human contact that reinsures an individual that they have the support and love that accompanies the Greek term Philia, meaning friend. Without that human contact that should come with friendship it is unsure to which the intent of the context is suppose to be interoperated. Technology becoming increasingly more manipulative in its uses diminishes the conception of Philia, unaware of whether or not it is genuine or falsely recognized. The use of technology in regards to friendship is not all negative there are some positives, but it continuously blurs the lines of what friendship is or is not thus resulting in devastation that is caused similarly by a chimera within Greek Mythology. Philia as understood by the Greeks ceases to exist, it is no longer represented by emotions but rather emoticons, and technology morphs its understandings from physical to platonic. “The idea of friendship in ancient times could not have been more different. Achilles and Patroclus, David and Jonathan, Virgil’s Nisus and Euryalus: Far from being ordinary and universal, friendship, for the ancients, was rare, previous, and hard-won” (Deresiewicz 2009, 2). True friendship encompasses depth and love to which one cannot receive through a computer screen but its accessibility allows for immediate and accessible communication.

Technology, specifically social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and many others contribute to a certain type of effective comm...

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...has been manipulated countless times leaving little recognition to the truth that the Greeks had established. Thanks to technology the true meaning of friendship has been lost with too many clicks of the ‘accept friend’ request.

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