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LACK OF EMPATHY IN FRIENDSHIP

   Lack of empathy in Friendship
Written by Shamninder Sahota
Would online conversations take over our sense of empathy towards people? Well, lacking physical contact and seeing people in real life can cause chaos in understanding words. In 2030 as we feel, that a lot would be on social media and human interface would decline. “Sherry Turkle, social psychologist and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, in her book Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age on how flight from conversation is undermining our relationships, creativity, and productivity, Turkle argues that all the instant messages, texts and minimally effortful “likes” and asynchronous communications are diminishing people’s capacity for empathy and ability to communicate in real life situations.”(Mann, 2017) .
This analogy would become true as ghosting someone from the internet world is easy and ending a relationship sheer through a text is also inconsiderate towards other human being making humans not be empathetic towards others feelings before their own. (Mann, 2017).
On the contrary, the fear of rejection withing finding and approaching a friend also declines through no face to face contact. (Mann., 2017). People who are introverts can also be able to approach someone without the fear of being rejected. 

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Mann, A. (2017, august 16). Future friendships: How technology is transforming our relationshiops. Retrieved from idealog: https://idealog.co.nz/tech/2017/08/future-friendships-how-technology-changing-our-relationships

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