No Social software No friendship

Yanting C.
Write With Empathy
Published in
2 min readFeb 12, 2018

How many teens use social software to make friends?

In the past, everyone can use mobile software to make new friends. According to the data, 90% of adolescents got acquainted with new friends through social software. The success rate of male friends is much higher than that of women. Because boys can also recognize new friends through online games. In these softwares, teens are able to recognize friends from all over the world who are more easily acquainted with common topics.

In the past, we only met new friends at school, at work, or through friends and family. We can only maintain friendly relations through face-to-face or telephone conversations. However, this is very inconvenient because we have other things to do. We can not hold a cell phone to chat with friends for 24 hours or we can not meet friends all day. But if we do not use the way we talk and meet on the phone, we can not keep a good relationship with our friends or we become more and more alienated. To us, the mode of making friends in the past is small and people do not have more time to make friends. But with the development of science and technology, each of us can recognize different friends through the software on the mobile phone. Now, as long as we log in mobile software, we can chat with the software, we do not need to keep talking on the phone, we only need to open the software in idle time to chat with friends. Social software is a broad platform for communication, easy to contact, expand the social circle, high degree of freedom, you can communicate with more than two people at the same time.

Modern teenagers use their cell phones every day to contact and communicate with friends and family. Different countries use different software. The commonly used software Facebook, Instagram and Other countries software. “Text messaging is key component of day- to day friend interaction: 55% of teens spend time every day texting with friends.” by Lenhart A. this means the important interaction between friends is text messaging.

Many software offer some features that make it easy to meet new people. So we can recognize new friends through this feature, we can also refuse to communicate if the feature does not show the type of love. In some software, we can easily understand a person’s hobbies and personalities by watching the movements and data made by others. Many people find friends with common interests and language in these materials. As long as we use the same software, even if we are in different countries or cities, we are able to reach friends from all over the world

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