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A best friend or a frenemy?
My name’s Joseph Goncalves. I am going to talk about the different types of friendship in our society. For starters, the definition of best friends has changed over times. Before the rapid development of technology, a best friend was the one we considered to be part of our families and part of our lives. These types of friends are loyal, friendly, respectful, caring, and so on. They are the ones that are rare to find in today’s society. Best friends give you advice when you are doing things that are considered wrong, and they applaud you in your victories. They schedule time to call you, go to your house for a visitation, and ask about your life. They are happy to see you happy, and they are sad to see you sad.
However, these friends are so difficult to find nowadays. The friends that we know today talk to each other only in virtual world. This is so true that they prefer to chat with strangers on Facebook than to spend a few minutes with their “real friends”. They cannot keep our secrets. Instead, they will stab us in the back. They are not content when we are successful and they will always criticize us negatively. These are the so called “frenemy”. We have to be careful enough to know the good and the bad qualities of people before we consider them to be our true friends.
My name’s Joseph Goncalves. I am going to talk about the different types of friendship in our society. For starters, the definition of best friends has changed over times. Before the rapid development of technology, a best friend was the one we considered to be part of our families and part of our lives. These types of friends are loyal, friendly, respectful, caring, and so on. They are the ones that are rare to find in today’s society. Best friends give you advice when you are doing things that are considered wrong, and they applaud you in your victories. They schedule time to call you, go to your house for a visitation, and ask about your life. They are happy to see you happy, and they are sad to see you sad.
However, these friends are so difficult to find nowadays. The friends that we know today talk to each other only in virtual world. This is so true that they prefer to chat with strangers on Facebook than to spend a few minutes with their “real friends”. They cannot keep our secrets. Instead, they will stab us in the back. They are not content when we are successful and they will always criticize us negatively. These are the so called “frenemy”. We have to be careful enough to know the good and the bad qualities of people before we consider them to be our true friends.