Our world today is heavily dependent and focused on computers, phones, and other technology devices. The main question we focus on now is deciding whether or not people can have “good” computer-mediated friendships. My answer is yes, people can have good friendships through technology, but there are guidelines and a few drawbacks to this scenario.
Three people we discussed in class are Aristotle, Vallor, and Munn. Vallor and Munn use Aristotle’s theory of friendship as a backbone to discuss and evaluate how our society today works with friendship and technology. I will be looking into their different theories of how to have a good and meaningful friendship.
Aristotle’s main focus was on his theory of friendship. When we look into a life that …show more content…
It is easy to be impatient because if you don’t want to wait for someone to answer you, you can just exit out or say “we can talk next time”. We don’t have to wait around, because we can just talk whenever we feel like it. Also, it’s hard to be empathetic towards people over social media. You can only go as far as to comment how sorry you are, but you cannot be there to hold that person face-to-face.
Through time and practice we can gain virtues, but social media might make it “too easy” for us to do that. It takes hard work to gain a virtue, so if we are easily doing it and not actually trying, we might not be truly gaining that virtue. If we aren’t practicing them, are we really gaining them? She says, “Most new social media are designed with the aim of making human communication easier, less risky, and more immediately satisfying. The motivation behind such design choices is no mystery. Yet virtues are typically developed as a consequence of performing actions that are, at least initially, …show more content…
As a very outgoing person, it’s hard for me to believe there could be a world someday that has little to no face-to-face communication with others. I believe to truly identify a real friendship, we have to look at the happiness within each individual’s relationships with others. Happiness is the ultimate virtue, which is necessary for the “good life” to thrive. We need to focus on that because, yes, the other virtues are important, but if we are happy through the way we communicate with others now, why should we worry about those “as much”? They come with friendship if it’s not based off of a social media platform. Friends can use those social media platforms, but it cannot be the only way the communicate. In person, and technology free interaction is
Three people we discussed in class are Aristotle, Vallor, and Munn. Vallor and Munn use Aristotle’s theory of friendship as a backbone to discuss and evaluate how our society today works with friendship and technology. I will be looking into their different theories of how to have a good and meaningful friendship.
Aristotle’s main focus was on his theory of friendship. When we look into a life that …show more content…
It is easy to be impatient because if you don’t want to wait for someone to answer you, you can just exit out or say “we can talk next time”. We don’t have to wait around, because we can just talk whenever we feel like it. Also, it’s hard to be empathetic towards people over social media. You can only go as far as to comment how sorry you are, but you cannot be there to hold that person face-to-face.
Through time and practice we can gain virtues, but social media might make it “too easy” for us to do that. It takes hard work to gain a virtue, so if we are easily doing it and not actually trying, we might not be truly gaining that virtue. If we aren’t practicing them, are we really gaining them? She says, “Most new social media are designed with the aim of making human communication easier, less risky, and more immediately satisfying. The motivation behind such design choices is no mystery. Yet virtues are typically developed as a consequence of performing actions that are, at least initially, …show more content…
As a very outgoing person, it’s hard for me to believe there could be a world someday that has little to no face-to-face communication with others. I believe to truly identify a real friendship, we have to look at the happiness within each individual’s relationships with others. Happiness is the ultimate virtue, which is necessary for the “good life” to thrive. We need to focus on that because, yes, the other virtues are important, but if we are happy through the way we communicate with others now, why should we worry about those “as much”? They come with friendship if it’s not based off of a social media platform. Friends can use those social media platforms, but it cannot be the only way the communicate. In person, and technology free interaction is