Deresiewicz argues that by focusing on friendship circles, social media conveys the idea that friends are an “indiscriminate …show more content…
My daily routine shows this fact all the time. In the past few days, for instance, I have been looking for a summer internship. Then, I remembered that one of my former programming competitions’ peers has been working in a big Silicon Valley company. I sent him a message on Facebook and, just a couple hours after, I had a recommendation that is going to make my internship application stronger. This peer is not one of my closest friends; however, we thought it would be good to maintain a means of contact, which proved to be a useful approach. Deresiewicz complains about how Facebook is making personal relationships turn into professional networking, but I believe that these two concepts never were