Summary Of Faux Friendship By William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz is an American author, essayist, and literary critic, and in “Faux Friendship” (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009), Deresiewciz argues against social media because he believes that it is negatively changing our perception of what friendship really means. First, Deresiewicz describes to the audience what the concept of friendship not only was, but how it developed over time. Throughout ancient times friendship was considered precious and far superior to marriage, but because this ideology was so rare, forming any kind of relation would be determined how society ran its people. Next, he emphasizes how the rise of Christianity the idea of friendship was so discourage upon that people needed to shift their relationship