The current philosophy seems to be the more “friends” that we can amass on Facebook, or the more “followers” that we can attract on Twitter, the better we can feel about ourselves. 

Although making scads of new acquaintances via the Internet and calling them “friends” isn’t the worst thing that a person can do, the rate at which we are doing it as a society (and the possible price being paid for that behavior in terms of the loss of real friends) says a great deal about us. Before we completely lose the ability to distinguish one type of friendship from another, let’s take a look at how our experience with this noble institution has changed in the last few decades. By doing so, we might learn something about ourselves and, perhaps, rediscover the meaning of true friendship. 

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