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In today's modern society we can share photos, videos, contact old friends, family you
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.
Making friends on the Internet is not safe. "You do not always know if people are who
they say they are," (Source 3). When you are on the Internet nobody can see who you are, making it simple to change your identity. Anyone on social media can lie about their age, gender, location, and a lot more. An innocent conversation with a total stranger on the Internet
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can seem harmless, but can hurt you later on. Many will believe they are talking to someone their age, and easily fall into a trap."You can remain anonymous on the Internet… You do not have to share information…" (Source 3). This becomes an issue when people use social media as an area to create new friendships. Users intentionally lie about their personal information to lure impressionable teens into a trap. Anyone has the ability to become an entirely different person. A teenagers intentions might be innocent and harmless, but you never know the intentions of the person on the other side of the screen. "My own networks on social media have gotten larger … a large percentage of that group don't know me …" (Source 2). The dangers of social media grow as your following grows. Teenagers who use social media put themselves at risk when sharing personal information with other Internet users. The more information you share with a larger group, the more likely it will be that your personal information could be put into the wrong hands. Online friends and followers could easily misuse the personal information that is being put out there, risking your safety. Making friends on the internet can easily put you in dangerous situations. Online friends do not offer the basic needs needed to maintain a friendship. "Friends who only exist on a computer screen do not provide the companionship necessary to sustain a friendship." (Source 3). When you make online friends you start losing the necessary interaction that forms the friendship. You will not be able to provide the care and comfort them as you would a real life friend. Also, you may only know small parts of their life, so when they are having a rough day you will not be able to help them. Without the face-to-face interaction you will not be able to share as much. Conversations will not be the same because it is not possible to tell someone's tone online. With internet friends you will only have access to contact them whenever you are connected to the internet. You can't keep friends without interacting with each other. When the online friend is on the other side of the world this will be hard to do. What would be the point of starting a friendship without being able to keep it. “. . . Dealing with someone who is not forthcoming about their identity. . .” (Source 3). To maintain a friendship you will need to build trust. It is difficult to build that trust when you have no idea to who you are talking to. This is important to show they can be depended on, without this trust it will be hard to keep a friendship going. This is harder to do online, where you do not have to share your personal information, making it harder to create an actual friendship. How can you trust someone you can't see? Could you create a friendship without trust. “Having internet friends comes at the cost of neglecting friends offline.” (Source 3). Being connected to your online friends all the time in attempt to maintain the friendship can hurt your offline friends. While focusing on friends that only exist on a computer, friends offline will stop receiving the attention and care that you gave them, and they will feel as if they have been replaced. Losing the interaction with your real life friends can stop all offline interaction all together. When you need them the most you might find that you do not have any friends left in real life. I do not agree with the idea that you can make real friends on the internet. Some might say that online social networks could help you create more friends, because interacting with more people is better than interacting with few.
"We believe that more relationships provide more opportunity." (Source 2). It has gotten into the minds of avid Internet users that the more people you have retweeting you, liking your pictures, or your status, the more social you become. How many of these followers are actually their friends? The more notifications you have on social media does not equal the amount of friends you have. It does not make you social, it just makes you another active user on social media. Receiving notifications does not help you make friends. Even just having a little chat with people online does not mean you are friends. More relationships with people online do not provide any opportunity of creating any real friendships. Friendship are not created by liking someone's status or retweeting someone's picture. ". . . online Americans tend to have 644 ties on average." (Source 1). There is more focus on making connections, than making real friends. A casual conversation does not automatically create a real friendship. Online you can create a larger group of connections, but this does not make you social. The social ties that the internet offers do not create a real bond between people. Social media connections do not help you create a real relationship with another person. More social ties do not mean you are interacting with more people, it just means you have connections with a larger group. I don’t agree with the belief that
you can make real friends on the internet. I disagree with idea that you can create a real friendship online. It is not safe since anyone can remain anonymous, and has access to your personal information which they can later misuse. Also, internet friendships do not provide the basic needs and support needed to sustain a friendship.
To begin with, Scope’s “Is Technology Killing Our Friendships?” By Lauren Tarshis states that “If we are constantly checking in with our virtual worlds, this leaves little time for our real-world relationships...” People think that they are constantly connecting with others on social media when in fact they are doing the opposite. Checking phones constantly only proceeds to dim the real world. People who are always
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
The idea of needing social networking sites to connect with everyone else knows or may meet have become embedded in American culture throughout recent years, especially among the teenage population. Facebook is easily one of the most popular sites, to the point where it would be considered unusual for someone attending high school to not have a profile on the site. However, does Facebook actually create a stronger connection between people, or does it simply creates the illusion of a healthy social life, while really creating distances a distance between them? Facebook can function as a placebo for some users in the place of genuine, healthy social life. Users with massive amounts of Facebook friends, but sub-par social lives can become pre-occupied
In his essay Silver mentions, “Regardless of what we think or what our social media statistics indicate, as functioning humans we can only maintain a set number of actual relationships, straining what exactly a friend is.” (Silver 444). It has been expressed here that no matter what the statistics of social media portray,the average human being can only maintain so many actual and physical relationships with people. Therefore, why he is arguing that social media indeed creates fake friends that most people claim to believe that they are friends. However, I argue that fake friends are those who impact your life as a friend negatively in the real world. Fake friends become your “friend” because they need or want something from you. Once they find what they want or need, it is normal for them to ignore you and only come back when it 's convenient for them. Comparatively, friends on social media are more of an acquaintance in my point of view. On social media, those who I allow to be my friends or follow me I either have come into contact with a few times, or have been friends with them at some point in my life. That is the reasoning as to why I don’t believe that social media creates fake
In the year 2016 almost everyone applying to a school or business has a social media account. College admission offices and businesses have the ability to check applicant’s social media before they accept them into their school or business. But they should not be looking at social media because it does not give an accurate portrayal of the person applying.
The Internet gives us an opportunity to be social connected with family and friends. Many of our family and friends live far way from us. Yet, we do not want to loose the connection with them. Social
Adam Briggle also talks about how on online friendships in his article Real friends: how the internet can foster friendship. He states that we can sell our best quality and hide or not show the weaker side of ourselves, whereas in face-face friendships we may not be able to hide those negative traits about ourselves and they may just come out without our knowledge. This being said gives us or the internet user full control on how and what they what to share with other individuals online. (Briggle, 2008, p.
...to Facebook, as well as to many other social media that is found on the web. Social communication online can never replace the true face-to-face communication, and many people justify it.
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Slowly we have misplaced our personal touch with each other through social media like Twitter, Facebook, or instant messaging. These sites have made our life stories conveniently cheapened. We have been pulled farther apart over the high speed connects of the Internet. My personal relationships before the Internet era had stronger community connections with friends and family members through physical bonding. On the other side of the coin, take daily behaviors with occupational networking; professional social websites can have greater effects to job opportunities.
The television series of this show “Catfish” shows us that there are many individuals out there like Angela, who create completely fabricated identities, for many different reasons. Whether it is malicious or a release for the person; It is an escape from reality in most cases. This alerts us to the dangers of social media, and makes us wary of meeting new people online, as all may not be what it seems.
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Since the introduction of internet in the 1990’s, its importance worldwide has always grown tremendously. From the first email send to the domination of Facebook and other social media websites, it has changed the way people communicate. The use of social media is increasingly becoming the preferred way people share their daily activities, ideas and knowledge and that is why it’s the most talked about and used platform. Many companies are encouraging their employees to use various social media platforms and engage online for office productivity, posting opinions and presenting their thoughts. Corporations realize that Social Media tools such as blogs, forums, podcasts and social networking websites makes internal communications faster, more convenient and effective. Social media is a low-cost, high-impact tool that can also complement and reinforce your existing communications efforts. It gives a new dimension to internal communications in many ways: building relationship with employees, leads to diverse thinking and innovation, and reduce costs and Increase Productivity. Social media has impacted positively in the business world, but its downside has impacted teens in high school, with issues such as cyber bullying, and people using Facebook and twitter to get over their boredom and research proving that the more they use social networking websites the more envious they feel.
which people communicate. How people form and maintain relationships are evolving in light of Internet-based technologies, most recently with the rise of social networking websites. Furthermore, these sites alter previously held beliefs related to identity formation and maintenance, as users may choose to share as much or as little personal information – whether true or fabricated – as they like with other users. These changes impact relationships in the offline world both positively and negatively. Although today people carry out their day-to-day relationships online, social media have weakened the meaning of friendship and emotional connections. In discussion of whether or not social media affects relationships positively or negatively, a differing viewpoint has been offered by William Deresiewicz in his essay “Faux Friendship” and Clive Thompson in his essay “I’m so digitally close to you”. On one hand Deresiewicz ridicules the use of online social networking in today’s society. On the other hand, Thompson contends and talks about how Facebook has positively changed the world.
“According to Cornell University's Steven Strogatz, social media sites can make it more difficult for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we foster in the real world, and the numerous casual relationships formed through social media” (Jung, 2016). It is not a shocking fact when you notice that it requires much less energy to just sit around and text. It sounds innocent at first but when you realize that people are now spending hours and hours on their screens some concern