If there is anything that this Z Generation has robbed us off, is the pleasure of real friendships, friendships which were cultivated in a leisurely manner and preciously cherished for an entire lifetime.
What we do have, instead, are friendships that stay connected on screens of the smartphone, the fake love and likes in the social media, which serve a purpose, which are useful and which serve some direct or indirect benefit.
These could last anything from one week to two years. The moment they outlive their utility, they are dumped in favour of a better, more beneficial alliance.
Friendships have, in other words, become transactions measured in financial and materialistic terms. There is no emotional bonding at all.
But no matter what in today’s time, due to digitisation, people make friends virtually more than physically meeting them in person. Those friends are also friends for life, in many people’s lives.
They do video calls, chats no matter where they stay, be it Australia or New Zealand. They stay connected always whenever they feel like, that’s how today the friendship has shaped up or, in other words, emerged in social media.
“Good friendships are the ideal stress relievers, morale boosters and soothsayers,” say Mona and Bharat; both bankers by profession meet virtually through social media, who have a group of four couples from different walks of life and belonging to different age groups and backgrounds as friends.
This story is from the July 2022 edition of Woman's Era.
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