Friendship: “For-Real” friends OR Social Media Friends

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Several years ago, Toyota aired an advertisement about real life friends vs. internet friends via social media. (You can watch it here.) In it, the daughter sites an article that states “older people becoming more and more anti-social” yet the video shows the parents with “actual” friends out biking. Then the daughter goes on to say that she got her parents onto social media, but they only have…