Group 3: Degradation in real-life friendship

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[edit] Degradation in real-life friendship

  • 5 arguments supporting the controversy
    • Online friendships - lack of actual experience vs. real world exp
    • Harder to understand chemistry/connections between individual
    • Maintaining superficial friendships through OSn - limited benefit
    • OSN redefines intimacy/nature of friendship
  • 5 arguments refuting the controversy
    • OSN negate distance between established connections
    • OSN improve communication/networking/events
    • OSN enable minority/disenfranchised populations to connect with one another
    • Possibly reinforce real world friendship by illustrating differences between RW/Online
  • A research question and a brief outline of how you might study the controversy
    • RQ: Difference between existing connections and OSN-established connections, effects of OSN use on these connections.
    • Potential study: Survey, qualitative interviews