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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Good Cents, post: 5005394, member: 100720&quot;]Facebook made &quot;friend&quot; into a verb. &quot;He friended me.&quot; And they have all these &quot;friends&quot; on Facebook, or whatever the new flavor of the day App they are using, and there is this illusion that these people are really their &quot;friends&quot;. Meanwhile, they are nothing more than their competitors - competing for who got the most &quot;Likes&quot; to their selfies, or videos, or whatever, competing for attention to their posts and pictures and mean, witty one-liners. Those are not friends.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is very sad that technology has lowered the Emotional IQ of the latest generation of humans. They don&#039;t know how to connect with others without a machine attached to them. I saw a part of a video of a concert for young people and I don&#039;t think there was a single person not holding their phone up to video it. It was wild to see - everyone holding their phone up. It makes no sense to someone like me. I would be like &quot;Oh, someone else is taping it? Good! I don&#039;t have to, I&#039;ll enjoy myself and get the video from someone else later!&quot; But they all &quot;need&quot; to tape it to show to their respective friends 30 seconds after they leave the concert, so they can be the first of their &quot;friends&quot; to get the most &quot;likes&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a media competition, not a friendship!</p><p><br /></p><p>I sound old and crotchety, but I&#039;m not even that old! (It&#039;s all relative, isn&#039;t it?)</p><p><br /></p><p>The human connection is what is lost, and developing friends requires a human connection. And throwing around pictures and videos and showing off your latest vacation and your &quot;friends&quot; liking what you post is not friendship.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder how long it will take humanity to figure this out. Probably never because Facebook and all these Apps were developed to give the illusion of satisfying people&#039;s need for recognition. It manipulates human weaknesses. The creators of these Social Media Apps even wrote a book about how that was their intention in creating it - preying upon our natural instincts - and how they regret having done that (years later and billions of dollars richer).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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