Analysis Of Faux Friendship By William Deresiewicz

In “Faux Friendship” William Deresiewicz, discusses how social media has changed friendships, and how the experience of making new friends has changed over the years. Everyone needs someone in their life to talk to or share problems and happiness with in their life. Friends are a very important part of our lives. Most of the time, true friends always have your back to support you in difficult times. It used to be very hard to make friends because there was no technology as there is now. Social media has made it very easy for everyone to become a friend in a matter of minutes. Due to social media we allow our friendships to be influenced by our activities, and by the events we surrounded ourselves with. Social media is one of the …show more content…
Deresiewicz notes “With the social-networking sites of the new century- Friendster and Myspace were launched in 2003, Facebook in 2004-the friendship circle has expanded to engulf the whole of social world…” (440). People are becoming friends through social media in nowadays. Facebook and Myspace are widely used to make friends and to reconnect with old friends, along with several other social media sites. This proves that, since social media like Facebook and Myspace are invented in this world, friendship has changed. People are no longer seeing each other face to face. They are communicating through messages and video chat instead. Some people only talk to someone for a couple of minutes and call them their friends, unlike in past becoming or making new friends wasn’t that easy or fast. In the past to call someone your best friend, you have to know that person very well, basically knowing almost everything about them. The friends that we make through social media does not hold the same value as it used too. In short, the invention of social media has changed the value of …show more content…
The new people that we are becoming friends with through social media are stranger, they are not real friends. The reason is that we only know them because of social media, we never had a face to face talk with them. Nowadays, we can’t even trust our friends because they are not real friends. We can’t call our friends family member because they are only our friends when we are online at same time. It does not hold values anymore. Making a friend use to be when two humans interacted and where strangers, gradually interacting with one another in person then becoming friends. I believe that the author discusses all the problems of fake friendship that we are facing today. Nowadays we don’t even have to ask our friends how they are feeling or where we going because they would post on social media sites first then informed their so called friends. Social media sites are more important than friends to some people, as social media sites are their priorities and friends come after. To some people social media is the only way they can make friends because they don’t have good communication skills to talk face to