discuss Does Social Media Help or Harm Friendships?

[theearner]

Social media has made it easier to stay in touch, but does it really help deepen friendships, or does it create superficial connections? Some people feel closer to their friends online, while others feel more distant.
What’s your opinion? Let’s discuss.

 

[Ashake]

Social networking sites are good and bad for friendship. There are numerous ways to communicate with friends on those platforms but it also means that it is possible to create fake relationships. It's a mix of good and bad.

 

[Augusta]

For me and from my experience it does help friendship as I do interact with a lot of people that I deem fit online and I love it

 

[Heatman]

I've always used social media platforms in a healthy manner. This is why I vehemently believe that all of the social media platforms I've used and still using have been very helpful with my friends and other inter-personal relationship.

 

[NatureFreak]

Well it is not everytime you get to connect with all your friends physically. Social media makes it possible to maintain the connection with them when meeting physically is out of the question.
So to an extent, social media helps friendships.

 

[Ja sa bong]

Social media sites are capable of doing anything which is good or bad. If you allow how you make use of it to ruin your friendship, it will not disappoint you in having it carried out perfectly.

 

[Unvarnished]

The impact of social media on friendships may lead toward positive and negative direction at the same time. Using social media will help to maintain distance friendships because it's a very effective communication tool to keep close contact

 

[Reelz]

I think friendships can be maintained through offline meetings and regular online communication. This will help to build trust and intimacy especially when they communicate deeply. People should make use of social media networks to enhance their connections instead of using it to eliminate personal meetings.

 

[Ja sa bong]

I think friendships can be maintained through offline meetings and regular online communication. This will help to build trust and intimacy especially when they communicate deeply. People should make use of social media networks to enhance their connections instead of using it to eliminate personal meetings.

There are many people who doesn't know how to balance things out with how they use it. I've witnessed many occasion where people sit out but are mostly on their phones. How does that help their communication there? It's a bad habit.

 

[Starmix25]

It has mixed effects either getting closer to friends or ruining a friendship. It is better for the person not to take what he or she seriously on media like Facebook.

 

[Ja sa bong]

It has mixed effects either getting closer to friends or ruining a friendship. It is better for the person not to take what he or she seriously on media like Facebook.

Social media sites will only affect your friendship with people if you decide to give more attention to what goes on online while ignoring and abandoning your friends in physical life.

 

[Starmix25]

Social media sites will only affect your friendship with people if you decide to give more attention to what goes on online while ignoring and abandoning your friends in physical life.

I agree with you on that in fact I have almost 100 friends I blocked and restricted. Others want to borrow money. What a lazy person.

 

[Ja sa bong]

I agree with you on that in fact I have almost 100 friends I blocked and restricted. Others want to borrow money. What a lazy person.

The block button feature on social media sites are a life saver. I wonder what would have been of my peace of mind using social media sites without being able to block those who are trash.

 

[Starmix25]

The block button feature on social media sites are a life saver. I wonder what would have been of my peace of mind using social media sites without being able to block those who are trash.

The users will always be annoyed. Sometimes, I only send messages thru Meta messenger. Facebook now is feasting with what happened to our former President Duterte who was arrested by the ICC.

 

[Yama]

It depends on how you are using it. For me it is helping. I can connect with friends in other countries. I can use it as a medium to communicate. Social media helps me to understand how they are doing.

 

[Starmix25]

Social media like Facebook helps me a lot. It is where I display my online business' on Facebook Marketplace. I can also reach ,my relatives and important friends abroad thru media.

 

[Ja sa bong]

The users will always be annoyed. Sometimes, I only send messages thru Meta messenger. Facebook now is feasting with what happened to our former President Duterte who was arrested by the ICC.

I'm not aware of what happened to your President Duterte. What was the reason why he was arrested by the ICC? Fraud or something more serious?

 

[Starmix25]

I'm not aware of what happened to your President Duterte. What was the reason why he was arrested by the ICC? Fraud or something more serious?

He was accused of extra judicial killing of his drug on war. It was the policemen who killed those criminals who were drug addicts, rapists, killers, or murderers. There were series of drug trafficking' and killing before Duterte was the President. It was only during his administration where the Filipinos felt safe and secured. It was the oppositions who maneuvered the arrest, there were 5 of them including Marcos the recent president.

 

[Jason]

I lost some friends from high school on social media because their posts are politically charged and obnoxious.

 

[Cpvr]

For me and from my experience it does help friendship as I do interact with a lot of people that I deem fit online and I love it

this is how I use social media as well. It's great for networking, building connections and meeting new people. I have my family members and friends on facebook, but the other platforms are my main networking apps.

I prefer to use them all, especially threads, reddit, quora and Bluesky. I use twitter as well, but not that much anymore.

 

[Shawn]

Social media has made it easier to stay in touch, but does it really help deepen friendships, or does it create superficial connections? Some people feel closer to their friends online, while others feel more distant.
What’s your opinion? Let’s discuss.

I've met some really good friends on social media. Some of them in person and we see each other often. It's a great place to reconnect, as well.

I just hate the algorithm because sometimes, it will stop you from seeing stuff from people, and you lose touch.

They need to work on that, at least for personal pages/profiles -- in my opinion.

 

[Jason]

Social media can be fun, but it's like TV, as being a waste of time that we are suckered into daily.

 

[Shawn]

I use it daily for my outdoor brand, but it pays me substantially for doing that.

 

[Jason]

I use it daily for my outdoor brand, but it pays me substantially for doing that.

Well, that's worth it.

 

[Shawn]

Well, that's worth it.

But I do have boundaries.

This coming weekend, my wife and I are planning on going backpacking. We'll be hiking to our campsite for the weekend.

So, no social media or internet for me. It's nice to unplug. In a way, that is -- I'll be filming and taking pictures for content, haha.