It've never been so easier to keep in touch and meet new people online. Thanks to social networks, we have never had so many friends. However this is transforming the definition of friendship. It is common sense to say that the computer does not replace the actual experience of relationship with other people. Even so it is possible to meet someone and maintain an authentic virtual friendship. There is a change of conception of friendship in the beginning of 21st century. Friendship is a relationship that occurs increasingly within the sharing and exchange of ideas. The friend is not necessarily the one that is next door, but someone to be together is through a conversation, an exchange of views, experiences and conceptions of thought. However, is really easy to change who we are, and what we think by internet, or we can find who we really are by knowing people who are like us.
Virtual friendships, as well as conventional friendships, favors the increase of reflection and action of the subjects from the other speaks. The authenticity of affection in relationships mediated the internet reveals a new way of being together in which subjects are mutually affected by symbolic exchanges that take place in the record of chatting. The exchange of experiences and opinions raise subjective transformations that change ways of thinking and that can bring increased power to act.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/virtual-friendship-and-the-new-narcissism
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