Analysis Of Faux Friendship By William Deresiewicz

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In “Faux Friendship”, essayist and critic William Deresiewicz tells about friendship and the journey of how friendship has changed over the decades. Friendship is an important part of everyone’s lives. Every person wants to be a friend or to have that special person they can call their friend. What is friendship becoming now that we have networking sites that allow us to keep in contact with potentially every person we come into contact with? Being someone’s friend was not something that was given freely. In order to have a friendship you had to have certain qualities, be able to speak the truth even when it hurts the most. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave us friendships of those that are most like-minded. Those people that have been important to our society, that have influenced our world…show more content…
Now we allow our friendships to be influenced by our activities, or by the events we surround ourselves with. It is your choice who your friends are, your choice to have a multitude of close friends or just one special person. The era of feel good, the sixties allowed people to believe they were friends with everyone, it was a very relaxed time period. The feelings of love and peace affected most everyone. The nineties gave way to a different perception and that people believed it was ok and the norm of the day to be single to have close friends. The latest era has opened our mind to the new possibilities, you can tweet your inner most thoughts and feelings, post your wants and desires and tell everyone on your friend list how your daily life is going. All of the networking sites have made it easier to tells everyone how you are feeling. They have also allowed us to keep in touch or reconnect with long distance family and friends. Rarely does someone pick up the phone and call their friend to vent about a bad day. Instead they can tweet their thoughts and feelings in less than 140 characters. They can put a post on Facebook telling

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