The Quagmire Of Social Media Friendship, By Curtis Silver
Life nowadays is getting very busy, fast and hard which affects many people. Today, people face many problems and hard situations which sometimes break their emotional strength. There are many ways today for people to get over such stress. People get motivation from friends to fight the problems they face in life. The best way to fight our problems, stress, and emptiness is to make more friends. In the article “The Quagmire of Social Media Friendship” by Curtis Silver, she believes that online friendship represents a merely “ghostly” version of actual friendship (1). These words of Silver describes that online friendship is dangerous because people can’t see whoever they are talking to, and they can’t believe if the person is trustworthy or not. I disagree with Silver on this argument because it plays an important role in life, which people use to share their feelings and secret with others, the can make new friends from any part of the world, and it takes the stress, emptiness from their live which saves them from depression.
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People hide secrets which they never share with people around them because they don’t feel comfortable. They can share such secrets with online friends because then they don’t have to face them and it’s more comfortable for people to say what they have to say. Online friendship another benefit that people are available when others need them. Online friendship also allows them to end a conversation whenever they feel like instead of talking for long period of time. People share their feeling to others without any hesitation and tell them many things that they normally don’t talk about. Being able to talk to other make people feel good about themselves because then they don’t feel bad about themselves, and about their
People hide secrets which they never share with people around them because they don’t feel comfortable. They can share such secrets with online friends because then they don’t have to face them and it’s more comfortable for people to say what they have to say. Online friendship another benefit that people are available when others need them. Online friendship also allows them to end a conversation whenever they feel like instead of talking for long period of time. People share their feeling to others without any hesitation and tell them many things that they normally don’t talk about. Being able to talk to other make people feel good about themselves because then they don’t feel bad about themselves, and about their