REAL VS VIRTUAL FRIENDS
The idea of friends in different worlds
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Is online websites good for teenagers these days to make friends with?
Firstly, the number of real-life friends is positively correlated with subjective well-being even after controlling for income, demographic variables and personality differences. Doubling the number of friends in real life has an equivalent effect on well-being as a 50% increase in income.
Effects of making friends online towards real friends.
Many people
especially the teenagers enjoy going on social networking websites to chat with
friends online in the virtual world. What many people do not know is that
making friends in the online world has both its negative and positive
effects.
One of the positive
effects that why people want to make friends online is so that people can still
keep in contact with their long lost friends who stay far away from them. Some
make friends online so that they can share their pictures and videos with each
other.
Following on, people
vent their feelings to their online friends as they feel that it is less embarrassing.
Negative effects are
that when people post their personal information online, many do not know that
some users will use their personal information to do illegal activities.
Teenagers make friends online so that they can chat with random strangers
online to waste their time away. From my knowledge, most people want to make
friends online with people from different countries so that they can learn the
different cultures of different countries and have a broader knowledge of the
culture of different parts of the world.
Well, it is true that
sometimes making friends online is good but there are times when making friends
have its negative effects. When making friends online, we do not know what the
real person looks like and sometimes we may be in danger of getting scammed by
these online users to give them money for “emergency” purposes. Thus making
friends in the virtual world may not be exactly a good thing as you never know
that you may be in a risk of being in danger.
Think before you
intend to make friends online in the virtual and make a wise decision. Engaging
with friends in the online world has both its negative and positive effects.
Chan Tsun Kyd
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