Friendship
Today’s Friendship
Facebook! Facebook! Facebook! Just about everyone uses it. From long lost friends, to teachers, even your great-grandma may be found posting statuses. Over the years social media websites have become more and more popular. Whether it’s to pass time, find “friends”, or even to stalk people you don’t know yet people are very in tune with these sites. In “Generation Why” Zadie Smith states “when a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendship. Language. Sensibility.” I strongly agree with this statement because with social media there is no more “You” it is always everyone.
The saying “everyone is doing it” has been around for years. Whether it’s wearing the newest style of clothing or trying to drive blindfolded, people tend to want to be a part of it with “everyone else”. But if you are “everyone else” there is no space for you to be yourself as an individual. I believe social media “reduces” an individual in numerous ways. For example, in order to fit in one may falsify different qualities of themselves to be liked by others. Also, he or she may post different statuses that make them look “cool”, but is out of their normal character. Moreover, back then you would have to have a verbal conversation with a friend in order to express your true feelings now people just set their status as to what they feel. Do your “friends” on Facebook even care? Furthermore, how can one be an individual if you are just one of the billions of people who are doing the exact same thing? “Don’t worry about everybody else; this world is full of everybody else.”-Kimberly Elise.
In “Generation Why”, the author gives her personal definitions of “friendship” and “intimacy”. In passage she states, "“we live at a time when friendship has become both all and nothing at all. Already the characteristically modern relationship, it has in recent decades become the universal
Facebook! Facebook! Facebook! Just about everyone uses it. From long lost friends, to teachers, even your great-grandma may be found posting statuses. Over the years social media websites have become more and more popular. Whether it’s to pass time, find “friends”, or even to stalk people you don’t know yet people are very in tune with these sites. In “Generation Why” Zadie Smith states “when a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendship. Language. Sensibility.” I strongly agree with this statement because with social media there is no more “You” it is always everyone.
The saying “everyone is doing it” has been around for years. Whether it’s wearing the newest style of clothing or trying to drive blindfolded, people tend to want to be a part of it with “everyone else”. But if you are “everyone else” there is no space for you to be yourself as an individual. I believe social media “reduces” an individual in numerous ways. For example, in order to fit in one may falsify different qualities of themselves to be liked by others. Also, he or she may post different statuses that make them look “cool”, but is out of their normal character. Moreover, back then you would have to have a verbal conversation with a friend in order to express your true feelings now people just set their status as to what they feel. Do your “friends” on Facebook even care? Furthermore, how can one be an individual if you are just one of the billions of people who are doing the exact same thing? “Don’t worry about everybody else; this world is full of everybody else.”-Kimberly Elise.
In “Generation Why”, the author gives her personal definitions of “friendship” and “intimacy”. In passage she states, "“we live at a time when friendship has become both all and nothing at all. Already the characteristically modern relationship, it has in recent decades become the universal