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IN 2030: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA MIGHT AFFECT FRIENDSHIP

IN 2030: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA MIGHT AFFECT FRIENDSHIP
Written by Fernanda Araya.



Internet and social media is the perfect combination to find friends that share our same interests, and they are a click away, allowing us immediate connection. Still, social media friendship has disadvantages, and one of them would be that you can’t entirely trust that person. It seems that in the future, this trend will prevail since one of the concerns in the article “Life in 2030 […]” is related to trust, and the author addresses this problem by saying, “trust is the lifeblood of friendship and care-giving. When trust is absent, all kinds of societal woes unfold […]” (Rainie, 2017). Social media promotes mistrust since users tend to compare themselves with their friends, creating rivalry among their friends related to who has the best or most impressive life to share.  In 2030, it might be that these types of relationships will continue to focus on competitions. Mehta (2017) addresses the problem by saying, “for this reason, virtual relationships, especially ones through Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, seem to be about competition. How many re-tweets did a post get? How many followers and friends do you have? The desire to reach a wider audience, regardless of the quality of connection, seems to matter”. According to this statement, in the future virtual friendship would not prevail in real life since the main focus would still be on competition rather than sharing interests and important moments of our lives with our friends.




References

Rainie, L. (2017). Life in 2030: These are the 4 things experts can’t predict. World Economic Forum. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/life-in-2030-what-experts-cant-predict/

Mehta, D. (2017). Virtual relationships: connecting or disconnecting society? Retrieved from https://www.quantumrun.com/article/virtual-relationships-connecting-or-disconnecting-society

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