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2021年1月8日发(作者：慎守礼)
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.