With convenience that technology brings in making friends, do you think that being a friend and another has become superficial? What doesn't work? What could go wrong?
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Given the ease with which we can connect with people, friendship has become very superficial. While technology has promoted social networking tremendously, it has also changed the concept of friendship. People now focus on quantity rather than quality, meaning that the number of friends is a lot more important than the closeness one shares with them. Therefore, people befriend individuals just for the sake of having more friends show up on their friend lists on social media. Friendship has become a benchmark of popularity. There are no real conversations with most of the friends. The exchanges are limited to commenting on pictures and posts uploaded by them and an occasional message. Other than that, phone calls or meeting the friends with the intention of spending quality time with them is rare.
Unfortunately, a lot could go wrong, like being scammed by the people who are on an individual's friend list, but are in fact nothing more than strangers. There have been cases of scamsters befriending people only to cheat them later on. Also, one's true friends may get lost in the crowd of superficial people. Psychologically speaking, when in need of help, one might not be able to get help from any of the 'friends', leading to the person feeling totally worthless.