How The Cyberspace Changed Things: Notes On Friendship

I latterly watched Zoella's Q&A video in addition to I flora what she proverb most friendship to hold upwards actually interesting. She is right, non plenty people focus on friendship in addition to friendship developed online good at to the lowest degree non equally much equally romantic relationships. In this twenty-four hours in addition to age, where social media has almost taken over our lives (well for me at least) to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than friendships are developed online - I guide maintain thus many friends that I guide maintain never met, it's thus surreal.

What Zoe said most non easily trusting everyone in addition to jumping into a friendship alongside anyone in addition to everyone, actually resonating alongside me. I sympathise that for someone inward her position,  it's reasonable to hold upwards wary of people that desire to hold upwards your friend or desire to hold upwards inward your inner circle. I uncovering that incredibly scary in addition to I don't know most her but it would drive me insane. However, I am that someone on the other side in addition to I wanted to hash out it from my quest of sentiment equally the someone on the other side.

As a blogger, I larn invited to events in addition to at some of these events I met 'big bloggers'. I uncovering it thus difficult to beak these bloggers because it's ever that the dorsum of my caput that I mightiness seem to don't desire to  1 a fangirl (not that beingness a fangirl is non cool, it's actually cool I tin sack hold upwards the biggest fangirl) and/or ii equally someone that wants to befriend them for my ain gain. It could also hold upwards that I am merely a nervous in addition to shy someone peculiarly when it comes to coming together novel people. Nonetheless, that idea ever crosses my hear in addition to it makes me uncomfortable in addition to hesitant to approach these for sure individuals. I mean value it's heightened past times the fact that I am also a blogger because in that place could hold upwards this hidden agenda similar I don't know, you lot know what I hateful right? I retrieve I went to this result recently, in addition to in that place was a blogger I actually like. I guide maintain followed her for ages, but I stood in that place contemplating for at to the lowest degree 10 minutes on whether I should perish upwards to her. I know it sounds crazy but I am thus awkward in addition to thus I guide maintain that added pressure level of non wanting to come upwards across inward that way, trust me it's hard. By the agency inward the end, I decided to perish upwards to her in addition to she was amazing.

It's thus difficult non to experience similar an outsider inward these situations since it's natural people for people to stick alongside people they know. I would practise the same. I loathe to hold upwards the i that disrupts their conversation in addition to is howdy beak to me. H5N1 lot of this, I sympathise is to practise alongside my social anxiety in addition to also the complexity that surrounds friendships that has been reinforced past times social media. Do you lot know what it feels like, an American high schoolhouse idiot box series, you lot know where the uncool nestling is lurking merely about trying to hold upwards friends alongside the cool kids. I promise you lot guys larn what I am trying to tell because I experience lost inward my thoughts.

I think, what I am trying to tell is that it's difficult on both sides in addition to that social media politics doesn't ever larn inward easy. I am super interested inward what your thoughts are, thus permit me know.

Zeynab x

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