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Online Friendships Suck

January 13, 2011 11:04 am by Vered in Blogging & Social Media
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If Wesley had over 700 (seven hundred!) Facebook “friends,” but he was still incredibly lonely – so lonely in fact that he took his own life, What does that tell us about online friendships?

I used to think online friendships were valuable – I even argued here on these very pages that they were just as valuable as real-life friendships. But I have changed my mind. The story of Wesley and his suicide illustrates, as far as I’m concerned, how empty of any real value online social networking can be.

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Denise
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Vered, my friend, it isn't online friendships that suck - it is all friendships.

How many people have you known and been friends with IRL who did not present their true selves to you? How many have you known IRL who looked like everything was fine when it wasn't?

I've known just as many, if not more, people IRL who hid their loneliness, fear, anger and pain.

It isn't the nature of social friendships. It's the nature of individual friendships of all types.

I'm so sorry.

~Denise
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