Pseudo-Community: Not A Real Community

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Jeff gets in contact in Joe only to find out that he doesn’t really keep up with his old football buddies anymore and this shocks him. Joe says it is because it’s a “pseudo-community” not a real community where friendships come out of it. It was a community because of the environment they were in they were forced to be together so from that these fake like friendships came out of it. Where they would party and hang out but it was not like a true friendship. Because of this Joe has not had any real desire to stay in contact with them. Joe says the solution is to maintain meaningful relationships. Which Joe says is the problem of a lot of men and athletes go through. They go through this he says because they are focused on all the wrong things

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