Is Technology Killing Our Friendships?

Is technology killing our friendships? The answer is yes. Technology is killing our friendships. My reasons three reasons are that your friends on social media won’t be able to help you through hard times or be there to share your happiness. My second reason is that your friends may not be who they say they are. My last reason is that having a friend on social media does not have the same effect on your life like having having a friend in person. To begin with , people you know through technology may not be there when you are having a hard time or when you are really happy. There may be people that you know online and in person but there are people you don’t. You may say that you can facetime, skype, or oovoo your friends to share your feelings but the can’t hold you while you cry or play CandyLand when you’re happy through a screen. …show more content…
For example, a girl, so they say, sends you a friend request on Facebook so you look through her profile. She has a few pictures of her. She looks like a normal 12 year old girl so you accept. You begin talking to her and you guys grow really close. So close that you guys share all of your secrets with her. Then you go to school a week later and find out that it was a boy pranking you and told everybody your secrets. That is called Catfishing. What if you spent all of your time with that boy, thinking it was a girl, and didn’t spend any time with your friends in real life? What if you lost a friend because you wasted all of your time talking to this person on social