In such a modern era, our generation has managed to create hundreds of technical machines purposed to make our lives easier. Many of these technologies allowed us to interact and communicate so much simpler. We have cell phones, pagers, laptops, and computers, all sources that help us get in touch with love ones. Cell phones give us the ability to talk to anyone across the world, and computers provide us with internet. The internet allows us to talk to a variety of people on instant message, to meet new friends on Myspace.com, and to email documents and letters of importance or just pure entertainment. All this technology has made it quite simple to meet all sorts of friends without ever having to interact in physical form.

It has made it less difficult for us to express our feelings, unleash our anger and maybe even form a friendship. Compare how we can share our feelings to someone online than in person. There is a large decrease in worrying about what to say, what the right thing to say is, and saves you from seeing the reaction on their face when you say it. But it seems as though you’re selling yourself short, if you ask me. It seems as things feel a less real when you express feelings online or over a comment on a website. In confrontation, approaching the person is the most fearful part. But when you overcome the most challenging part, it seems as you, yourself as an individual grows stronger. You should understand that it should take more than just clicking on your buddy list and typing a whole bunch of words that you would never say out of your physical mouth to that person.

As for online relationships and phone relationships, it is unlikely and hard to maintain. Text messaging I love you to your companion for the first time isn’t the most romantic idea. But taking them out, having to see their face not over a web cam, but through your own eyes, that is a relationship that holds true potential. But there’s more, how can you feel cared about when that person isn’t even there. If I had to choose from a relationship over the net, to the one over a phone, I would rather be lonely.

How can you know someone you’ve never met? How can you love someone you don’t know? How can you be friends with someone that will never be there for you physically? Technology may introduce you to people, but it isn’t wise to depend on it. Technology is an enchantment, when used property, the relationship between you and your friends can grow deeper. But without human interaction, and physically sight and touch, it is unlikely to remain a deep and meaningful friendship.

A friend is someone who knows you, your lies, your habits, your features and who you really are. Not through a picture you Photo shop to the max or through the voice you present to them. Technology may allow you to grow more than hundreds of relationships with others in less than weeks, but how much of those relationships are honest? Honest is which they actually care about you. Technology has made it easier to evolve relationships, but it is those relationships that take took the most difficulty in building are the ones really worth having.