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Are Facebook Friends Really Your Friends?By: Kadir Keskin

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On Average Most People have 229 “Friends” on Facebook

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In reality we only have few friends which we interact with daily

Real Friends help us out in tough times, listen sympathetically no matter what,

lend us money or provide for a place to stay if needed

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We stand so close yet so far apart

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“Walking through a college library or the campus of a high-tech start-up, one sees the same thing:

we are together, but each of us is in our own bubble, furiously connected to

keyboards and tiny touch screens” Sherry Turkcle NYTimes, Flight From Conservation

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How many of your Facebook “Friends” have you NOT

spoken to in the past year?

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In reality we only keep in touch with very few of our Facebook “friends”

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“In the silence of connection, people are comforted by being

in touch with a lot of people — carefully kept at bay””Sherry Turkcle NYTimes Flight From Conversation

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“We can’t get enough of one another if we can use technology to keep one another at

distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just right”

Sherry Turkle NYTimes Flight From Converstaion

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“E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, all of these have their places — in politics, commerce, romance and

friendship. But no matter how valuable, they do not substitute for conversation.”

Sherry Turkle NYTimes Flight From Conversation

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“…and we’ll have generations of people who are more comfortable texting their friends

than talking to them in person””By Mark Glasser PBS “How Cellphones are Killing Face to Face Interactions”

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“Or perhaps they will prefer to sit around and listen to their own iPods separately rather than

having the shared experience of hearing music on a stereo system.”

By Mark Glasser PBS “How Cellphones are Killing Face to Face Interactions”

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“…being constantly connected to gadgets is

akin to what psychologists called a dissociative

disorder”Cynthia Brumfield – IP Democracy

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The result is replacing real human interaction with online “friends”

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“Face to Face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience”

Sherry Turkle NYTimes Flight From Conversation

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“All forms of communication work best when they lead to the sharing of ideas and

recommendations, especially face to face.”By Ed Keller and Brad Fay USA Today

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Isolation from real human interaction makes us lose the ability to hold a real conversation with

others offline

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As a result of the isolation we put more distance with our real friends and adapt more and more

online friends

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“But if we want to promote real change — as in our politics, public policies and cultural

behavior — it's best we do it face to face.”By Ed Keller and Brad Fay USA Today

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Social interaction is vital to our health both physically and mentally

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“In time our “friends” on Facebook just become acquaintances that have entered our lives

during a certain time frame”

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Although Facebook is a great tool to reconnect with old “friends”, we must acknowledge the difference between online interactions and

offline interactions

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Technology can never replace the value of real human interaction

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• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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