It may be something strange to write a post about friendship, however, we have the feeling that we need to re-structure some of the terms that already defines friendship. This is a short article that has nothing serious and we are only going to put our hands on some fun content related to friendship in the 21st century.
If you Googled the word Friendship; you will find the definition is so simple “A friendship is a close association between two people marked by feelings of care, respect, admiration, concern, or even love”. Know the questions that we want to ask, is it really that simple?, Do we need all these criteria to define friendship?, When we should say that we are really in a friendship? Should I evaluate all my friends based on certain criteria? Now let’s take a dive into the principles of friendship in the 21st.
As the world is growing toward the expansion of technology, we started to witness new types of friendships and in my opinion; it’s not that simple any more. In now days, we don’t see those old friendships that depends on spending a lot of time with each other, having a good meal, watching Netflix, hanging out in those low key restaurants and fast food walk through and in some cases, commit a rude act that most probably will remember for the rest of our lives and will for sure regret it and then laugh hysterically.
I can see that those types don’t exist in the same way as before. Friendships are faster and on the go now days and in my opinion, technology and social media has a great role in this. You don’t need to make sure your friend is okay everyday any more as you can just check his activity status on Facebook. You also don’t have to hangout everyday as you can make an online gathering through gaming consoles like PlayStation and Xbox and start playing different games together Soccer, Football and lately Fortnite. Things are much easier now and I can see that this is a double edge weapon. No doubts that the Internet and social media are great and have already changed the world and made it a better place but, at the same time, it already made a social distancing between people, it already connected people in a fast way so they don’t need to walk long distances to reach out and it already made people a lot more lazy than before. In my opinion, this has allowed three new types of friendships which are:
I think each and every one has at least one friend would belong to this type of relationship, that type of friends that you always check on every now and then, this type of friend that you can stay for months without talking too and when you call, it’s just as if you were together yesterday. Somehow, I like this type of friendship and I think it has more advantages than disadvantages. It removed all the barriers of demanding friendships that requires a lot of emotional and physical effort. I always describe this friendship as an easy going one it doesn’t require any hustle at the same time, both persons feels safe and secures in this type of friendship; they also feel respected and can depend on each other always.
In my opinion, it’s the worst. It’s that type of friendship when you both see each other frequently in different occasions but frankly, you don’t know much about each other. And by saying don’t know each other I mean those personality details and preferences that friends should know about each other and by the way, this type is easily discovered using our Friendship Quiz, don’t get us wrong if the answers didn’t satisfy you.
This type is good, but sometimes turns to be stressful if not balanced right. Both friends should know their rights and obligation in this one. Sometimes, if one of them is needy and demanding, he/she will ruin this type of friendship. Each one should know how to handle the other and also know every detail in the other person’s personality, what does he like, hate, what make him angry, happy, etc. I love this type as it reminds of old fashioned friendships that don’t exist that much in nowadays, but everything has its own pros and cons.