Online Friends
Example
Nowadays, technology plays a significant role in all our lives. Friends come and go but online friendships stays unless you deleted them on your friends
list. For instance, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tinder are the most common websites on where to add friends even without meeting them yet. You can call and
talk using this applications and you can also send chat messages anytime, anywhere. If you are trying to find your long lost friends from elementary or high school,
you can simply start to search and look them up on Facebook and once they pop, go figure just click their name and request to add them as your friend. In addition,
there is also FaceTime, Skype and Google hangout where it is very
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Offline friends does not mean real friends either. You might see and talk to them every day but they are not always there for you
when you need them. They are not there if you need some help, in any situations where you need to talk to, and even stay out of your life when they sense that you
are in such a big problem.
Argumentation
For many teens, social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are the most common spots for meeting friends online. According to PewResearchCenter
76% of all teens use social media on which Facebook is the dominant platform where 71% of all teen are using it. Online friends are not really different from real
friends. Some friendships work better when they are behind the screen. Nobody will judge the way how you look, what you wear, etc. Research suggest that people
who choose to stay loyal to few close confidants in your younger years is better adjusted by middle age than those who need to chum up with many.
Description
Online friends are not really too different from real friends. For some people, friendship is all about affiliation, intimacy, or close relationships. It is
In online friendships, you wouldn’t be able to get the full experience. You would only be getting half the experience in a friendship, if that happens. Friendship to me is being able to experience and make memories with each other that last a lifetime; memories that you can look back and laugh at the things you did together as friends, not as online friends. Friendship memories are remembered, while online friends come and go.
Have you ever made any friends via Facebook, Twitter, or Snapchat that you have never met before? I know I have through Twitter due to having the same interests. Some may say those friends are not really your friends, but virtual ones instead. In the article, “The Limits of Friendships,” by Maria Konnikova, she talks about friendships that are made virtually and in reality. The author argues that the use of social media has hindered friendships and face to face connections within one’s social circle, however, she does not address that they have met their closest support group through social media. Face to face connections help identify who one’s true friends are and they are more realistically made when it is in person rather than over social media, but there Konnikova fails to address the fact that social media has allowed many to connect
Welcome to past friends/ And lovers, however kind or cruel.” His opinion toward Facebook friends is that most users don’t consider the majority of their friends on Facebook their actual friend in reality. On Facebook or any other social media website, users may have hundreds of people they consider as their friends. However, in real life, most of the time that number lies in the single digit.
To sum it all up, it can be difficult to go about life without even a single friend, yet we all seem to manage. Friends get you through all kinds of situations. I wish I could maintain all the friends I currently have, but I realize and understand that the possibility is slight. We live and we learn. We grow in and out of friendships in accordance to our life’s expectancies and changes. Friends briefly touch your heart and some will stay longer than others. Personality and its uniqueness is everything, because no one wants several of the same friendships, all doing the same thing. With the friendships I have obtained, as long as they respect your beliefs, share the same interest in being your friend, and place all their trust in you; there’s a good friendship just waiting to happen.
haven't seen, and keep them updated on your day to day life. The Internet has become an important part of our lives, especially social media. I disagree with the idea that you can make real friends on the Internet because it's not safe and it does not provide basic needs that sustain a friendship.
People have the right of freedom to post and type what they want to express in the group without any interfere. Thus, even they are quite and isolated in the reality, they still are able to find friends easily online, because they do not need to see each other and just have the online interactions, such as textually conversations, etc. As long as they find someone who could talk to, then they could become friends easily. In this case, I am able to connect it to the reading by Tufecki, who is the author of the reading of “Who Acquired Friends Through Social Media and Why?”. “Seek and ye shall find” is the major theme of this reading. The author concluded that people believe in online friendship are higher chance to acquire new friends online, compared to those who do not trust online friendships. In his reading, people who believe in online friendship had 52% higher odds of acquiring new friends. There are some different reasons for those who support the idea of make new friends online. Most of the people support the belief in “hyperpersonal” nature of
This study focuses more on the youth that ranges from 15-24 years old based on the statistics. Adolescents spends considerable amount of their time in interacting with people through social media. They constitute the largest population of the active social media users. Wall Posts, Status Updates, Activity Feeds, Thumbs Ups, and Profiles are some of the ways that youth today communicate with one another. These tools are features of social network sites (SNS), such as Facebook and MySpace (Ahn, 2011). The youth uses social media for three common reasons like keeping a line of communication with friends and family. Second is, to access information easily and lastly is to keep them from being
Another way to meet people on Facebook is through instant messaging or IM. Instant messaging on Facebook is an exchange of texts, but in real time. It’s a direct message usually private between a person or a group that instantly goes to the person or people you want to read them. This helps you stay connected to people because it allows you to directly write someone without everybody seeing it. It’s a private way to share your thoughts, ideas, and feelings with one another. Also you can from groups by adding people who might want to share their opinion, but in a more secret
... teenager stay in touch and build a sense of comradeship with friends and family. A young person will be able to establish new friendships, while sharing and exchanging ideas. Social networking sites allow the user to develop a more profound view of their self, their community and a greater understanding of incidents that occur in the world. (9)
Social media sites such as Facebook are one of the most popular social media sites that has 700,000-750,000 members joining each day. Connecting with peers shouldn’t be a problem. It’s as easy typing the peers name push search, and some suggestions come up and find your peer you’re looking for and shoot them a message instantly with social media manly targeting young people such as teenagers. Facebook has made it so easy for teens to interact and engage with their peers. It allows teens to come into contact with long, lost relatives and reunite with them. Facebook is a virtual site = which gives teens an endless possibility to engage with peers, family, of maybe even people who they have never meet allowing then to interact making new friends.
The second category of friends I call "social partners." This is because they are closer than acquaintances, but no where near as close as a true friend. Social partners are usually acquaintances who evolve into "guest friends" through increased extracurricular activities. You know their name, a little of what they like or dislike, a little of their family history, and usually have several things in common. As the saying
Most common among young adults and teens, social networking plays a significant role in the social lives of adolescents. The teenage years are “a time of identity formation and role development” (Pew Internet and American Life Project 11). Online identity among friends and peers has now become as significant as one’s own personal identity, in that online information can be seen by many and online interactions have become a primary source of communication. As a result, teens tend to concentrate greatly on social life and now a majority use social networking sites and other social media as an outlet for this personal growth.
Friendship is a relationship that all the individuals can create by themselves. Though it is not a god gifted relationship like that of the relationship of a mother, father, sister, brother or any of the other family but still it is one of the best relations an individual can possess. People who have true friends consider themselves as the luckiest individuals on earth.
There is no real definition of friendship, because there’s no one way you can define it. Friendships can mean many different things, depending on the person. Friendship to you may be your boyfriend or your mom. To someone else it may be their cousin or someone they met on at school. It can take you a long time to consider someone your friend. Maybe you have to get to know them before you become their friend. Some people have had very bad experiences with friendships and may be scared to become friends with someone to fast. So it may take some time for some people to make friends. Maybe you can become friends with someone a couple of day after ya’ll meet. You may be one of the people who have never had any problems with friends, so you trust people more. Are maybe your someone who’s scared of being alone so you need friends there to help you cope with your fear.
Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest. These are only a few of the websites that have become omnipresent in the typical teenager’s life. First launched in 2004, Facebook seemed like the perfect means to connect with old friends and take part in organizations. Eleven years later, the social media industry has snowballed from its original purpose of simply a network for interaction. Most likely launched by the incredible popularity of Facebook, other networks have popped up. According to The Huffington Post, 71% of teenagers engage in more multiple social media networks, 24% of these teenagers admit to checking social media almost constantly. Scrolling, posting, and liking are actions