Social Networking Is Not Killing Friendship, By Kate Harding

Social Networking is Not Killing Friendship, written by Kate Harding, is about Harding’s claims that social networking is not responsible for the death of the traditional concept of friendship.
In this article, Kate describes her personal opinion of connection between Facebook and friendship. Generally, she disagrees with all common reasons that social networking has anything to do with real friendship. She uses William Deresiewicz’s essay to approach her viewpoint. The words that people should not mix up are “Facebook friends” and “friend”. People have hundreds and thousands of Facebook friends, but everyone knows that with proper audit of that list we can estimate that approximately only few of them are people that we would call a friend.
In today’s society, it seems like it become a enormous deal keeping in touch and maintaining a level of intimacy with someone. Commitment, compromise, trust, respect and a mutual growth that allows certain friends to last through decades reduced to short relationships that aim only for fun and current satisfaction. According to researchers from the University in Serbia, today’s society is named like instant society, which means that people want everything quicker and faster. Friendship requires an effort and time, but obviously citizens act like they do not have time and patience. If we have time for “bff” that will last for a month or couple of months, we definitely have time to build some real and honest relationship that will last “forever”. Also, the other concern is in that people do not trust each other like they used to. People are sure that this world is full of lies and manipulations, but indeed we are responsible for that. It seems like it is hard to gain trust in relationship, but we forget that every good things in life require time and patience. People just do not want to be hurted, so they are not completely