Internet network-communities like ‘Facebook’, ‘Bebo’ and ‘Myspace’ are tremendously popular these days and a phenomenon of the 21st century. But do they make us have more false friends than when we only had the phone to talk to others or actually had to meet people to talk to them?
I don’t believe that is the case. Sure, when we use sites like ‘Facebook’ we will add people to our friend list and will make them so-called ‘friends’. Often we don’t even really know these people or we have only briefly talked to them before. To put it bluntly, you wouldn’t normally call them your friends. However, people using these sites know that and would seldom call all people on their friend list a friend. Some sites call these lists contact-lists, which probably describes the issue more accurately.
As a result, I don’t think we make false friends on the Internet just because they are perhaps called ‘friends’, although they simply aren’t. Sometimes they are just contacts. After all, the normal rules or habits of how we connect with friends apply to Internet-communities in the same way as they do to our daily lives, we will only chat with a person we are really interested in and that we would call, or would like to call, our friends.
online networking just provides us with a stage where we express our opinions and share our expeiences with friends. Among them some are friends, some may be acquaintance only. In fact, everyone know this.
ReplyDeletewell you are right to some extent, i think your looking at the idea from just your own eyes. There are many people who call the people they add on social networking sites as "friends" and even if they dont call them as friends it can still affect them for if you fly with the crows you get shot with the crows.
ReplyDeleteit's very new that u call them CONTACTS:)
ReplyDeletei agree. we usually add some people on facebook and then never contact them. we just look through the home page. if we have time, we will go to our closed friends' profile. we have many friends in our list that we haven't go to their profile, even we haven't met them in the daily life. but it's networking. we just find something new. we just wanna keep it diversity. it's not a big deal.
by the way, good article J~ :p
I think that people just like the word "friends", it has positive meaning.
ReplyDeleteWe may have only either 2 or 3 real Friends in the rest of our life. Thank you ;-)