The Problem With Social Media and the Depression Rates

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Social media has warped people's idea of what a friend is It's really cheapened it. We have developed an understanding of what it means to connect with people Yeah, and when we talk about this whole thing this whole friendship thing I don't know if I've ever told you this but one of the things that I always Well dude, the problem with this to dude is that depression rates are on the rise,. Okay with younger people You know why because they can't fucking connect with people right? They don't know how to make real friends. And like they say oh, I don't need a lot of friends. I'm a loner Everybody needs a couple friends right you know what

How do you become someone people would die for? In the age of social media, we talk about having "friends." But that term has become cheap. We think that if someone follows our page or likes our post, we're "friends." Not hardly. Real friends are a positive force in your life, energizing, truthful, supportive, and fiercely loyal. We all need real friendships because we can't do life by ourselves or succeed on our own. But if good friendships are what we want, a good friend is what we need to become.