When you log on to popular, online networking sites you can easily see how many “friends” a particular person has.
Some people try to add as many “friends” as possible to their network list so that their friend count is extremely high.
This almost makes it seem as if there are people who nowadays just want to appear popular and “well-connected” to a lot of people, even if they don’t have a solid relationship or friendship with the people on the “friends list.”
Could it be that people are no longer concerned with the meaning of true friendship? I hope not.
While it’s great to be surrounded by a bunch of smiling faces at all times, those same smiling faces may frown about you when you’re not around; and they may not always really have your back the way your true friends do.
I have already witnessed people who put on great disguises and pretended to be a true friends to many people.
But after careful observation and some kind of drama, – in time what came out in the open was that they were either using a person to get to someone else; or they had an issue with low self-esteem that led them to go to any extent to add more “friends” to their “network list.”
If you choose the wrong person to “add to your friend list” you may have fantastic times at first, but as soon as real identities are shown, you could find yourself in a sticky or painful situation….
I guess what I’m saying is that as much fun as the online networking sites can be when they are used the right way, people our age should always carefully choose who they call a friend.
And, we have to know the difference between “friend” and “acquaintance.” This may not be a bad thing for adults to think about, too…
It might be much better to have a few amazingly true friends who will stick with you through the hardest of times, than to try to have a boatload of people on your “friends list” who don’t really care about you one bit.
It may not be a good idea to try to just make new friends just to say you have a lot of them. It will usually take a while to really get to know a person and become a true friend to or with someone else.
And once you really get to know that person, you'll be able to easily decipher whether or not they have honestly earned the title: TRUE FRIEND.
“True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.”
– Ben Jonson
Danielle M. Biggs
High School Student
Trustee & Administrative Assistant ~ Lifeline Foundation, Inc.
"Children are the globe's most precious commodity."
~ Terence H. Biggs, Jr., 2009 ~
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Lifeline Foundation, Inc.
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