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Is true friendship dying away ? To anyone paying attention these days, it’s clear that social media- whether Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the countless other modern-day water coolers- are changing the way we live. Indeed, we might feel as if we are suddenly awash in friends. Yet right before our eyes, we are also changing the way we conduct relationships. Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messaging; people even prefer these electronic exchanges to, for instance, simply talking on a phone. Smaller circles of friends are being partially eclipsed by Facebook acquaintances routinely numbered in the hundreds. Amid these smaller trends, growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship. Where is all this leading modern-day society? Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic stimuli slowly replace the joys of human contact. Typically, the pressures of urban life are blmaed: In London, another poll had two-fifths of respondents reporting that they face a prevailing drift away from their closest friends. 本文来源：https://www.dywdw.cn/c38209c2854769eae009581b6bd97f192379bf71.html
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2022-08-13
