In the article “Faux Friendship” by William Deresiewicz discusses how Facebook today and other social media is slowly destroying friendships. Being one’s friend is a great deal. Everyone longs for someone to be friends with or to gain new friendships with strangers. Now the process of becoming friends with one has evolved over the years. Today the term friendship is handed out like candy whereas back in the day, it would have to be earned. Now, social media gives the opportunity to make us feel like we have lots of friends.
It’s as easy as a click of a button now to gain more friendships on social media now.
Deresiewicz addresses friendship, in today’s society, something that has transformed into more of a feeling of friendship rather than an actual relationship with an individual. A friendship is supposed to be something that takes time and support to…show more content… Furthermore, friendships should offer unconditional acceptance to an extent because of the fact that one might be afraid of hurting the “friends” feelings if they try and correct them. Although, a true friend wouldn’t get offended if they did get corrected because they should trust their “friend’s” judgment. Thus, one should take the “friends” advice into consideration. Today, it’s a bit different, people can be too afraid to express what’s on their minds to their “friends” because no one wants to say the wrong thing. People should be able to communicate fearlessly even though Deresiewicz said, “We want our friendships fun and friction- free….” (Spatt 202). This would allow relationships to be stronger as a whole. If a relationship was all smooth and joyful, then obviously, there’s a problem with the relationship. Friction isn’t bad in friendship but rather good because it allows the relationship to build on its
