'Friendship' through face book?

'Friendship is unnecesssary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.' ( C S Lewis)

The popularity of face book has resulted it been accorded with larger than life status. It used to be that we developed technology to serve us. Now it seems that we allow it to shape us instead. From the feedback I gathered from those ardent face book users, I think that they have grossly exaggerated ‘friendship-making’ through this platform. People like to boast how many ‘friends’ they have in their face book accounts. Yes, the number of friendships did accelerated but what about the quality? True friendship requires willingness to invest time and much emotional energy is needed. Caring deeply for someone can be very exhausted and overloaded. It can even be messy at times especially emotion is involved. Commitment and responsibility must be present in any true friendship.

I am afraid that many have become so ‘comforting’ sitting long hours in front of the screen making ‘friends’ so much so that they do not know how to make real friends, how to connect with people face to face. In fact, they rather stay with the ‘virtual community’ than to be in real proximity with real people. They become too trusting and lack of discernment as they lacked the real experience of making friends. Through face book, it is mostly about ‘Me’, posting the best pictures, attention-seeking, ‘friends’ become their audience. This development is very disturbing indeed.