Virtual Friendship A New Narcissism Analysis

Social Networking Has No Feeling

In “Virtual Friendship an New Narcissism”, Christine Rosen says, “Today’s online social networks are congeries of mostly weak ties.” With technology and the social network, relationships have become impersonal and cold resulting from a lack of feedback because there is little visual communication to understand each other. In today’s society there is little time to actually talk on the phone and have a deep conversation, instead there is short abbreviated words that can be misconstrued. Meeting and chatting face-to-face happens infrequently because texting and facebooking have taken the place of casual together time communicating. We live in a face paced world and texting and the social network fit our
People need to have the face-to-face time. Face to-face time gives the emotional and physical attention to fulfill our needs. The sad thing is that the people that mostly use social networks to maintain their relationships are allowing technology rule their lives. Some people haven’t written a letter in years, some never send greeting cards or thank-you’s through the mail, they only e-cards. We live in a fast pace society, you can send a text in a second, writing a letter takes time and postage. To buy a card one would have to take time and drive to the store and then to the post office. The social network and technology has made this generation become concerned with doing things quick as possible, no time to waste. We are the e-generation, on the move, no time to build relationships, unless it’s in a text of ten words or less,
They would pick up the phone and talk for a while. They would meet for coffee and chat for endless hours, deepening their friendship ties. They would never dream of texting someone to say, “I don’t have time to meet you today, let’s just chat online ok?” Today in this social network age technology has dehumanized socialization.
In all honesty, our society has become addicted to facebook, texting on cell phones or twittering. It is a type of relationship they crave, one they can control, one that they have the power to start and end, yet they don’t realize that this social networking is detrimental to one’s health. One negative is when people are socializing online they tend to waste a lot of time; replies do not always come quick, to say the least. If a person is doing homework or studying for a test while facebooking, twittering or texting in between, one can become distracted and preoccupied with that messaging and meanwhile the thing that they are studying is not soaking in, thus they are not able to really retain what they are reading for