A virtual friend is a newfangled phenomenon that spreads at the speed of a terrible epidemic. Many people have completely moved from the real world to the virtual space, where they relax, get to know each other and spend all their time. As a result, ordinary dates and meetings in the cafe faded into the background, so it becomes scary for the modern generation.
Of course, you can’t completely refuse to communicate using the global network , but you should not move to the world of virtual reality either. Technically advanced countries are already sounding the alarm. Children and adolescents do not understand what a friend means, since they are used to communicating with their peers through the global web. Only at the same time, the person does not understand that he is communicating with a fictional character.
The fact is that on the network people are hiding behind the monitor of their computer. They are sure that their virtual friend will never meet them in real life. As a result, often your photos are not posted, an interesting life story is invented - and now the new character is ready for communication. At the same time, people do this on a subconscious level, since in a fantasy world they can become what they dreamed of being in reality. It turns out that you can communicate online with a long-legged beauty, who in life will be an ordinary housewife with many complexes and several tens of extra pounds.
When a person is confident in his own impunity, he can safely behave, ridicule other people's shortcomings. You can also always tell your interlocutor that you are a respectable businessman who is simply lonely. In real life, such an invention will quickly open - and there will be disappointment. In addition, a virtual friend will not come to your aid in case of serious problems. It will simply disappear from your life as easily as it appeared in it. If you get out, you can always pretend that the Internet has failed or the equipment has failed. At that time, he himself would calmly play computer games, meet other people, or while away evenings in front of the TV.
Some comrades assure others that their virtual friend is a special person who is different from the gray mass. They will begin to talk about the fact that they have similar interests, a similar perception of life. Only now it is impossible to verify the veracity of this, since a friend is hundreds of kilometers away. Of course, you can tell him about any problem, get objective advice. At the same time, people often note a very strange trend, which almost always manifests itself in virtual communication. Virtual friends provoke more frankness than the closest relatives. Psychologists attribute this behavior to the effect of a fellow traveler. It is easier for a person to entrust his innermost secret to a friend whom he will never see than to share it with his closest people.
In fact, most people are simply too selfish. They understand that a real friend can get into a difficult situation at any time. In this case, you will have to help not only in word, but also in deed. If you refuse help, then reproaches and problems will begin, therefore it is easier to communicate with a virtual interlocutor.
True, virtual communication is not always a sign of callousness and laziness. There is a special category of people who, due to their physiological characteristics, cannot make real friends. For them, virtual friends are the only outlet, but there are few such people. Even people with disabilities try to break through in life, to achieve some goal, although they have to spend a lot more effort on this than an ordinary person. Only they try to make real friends, see each other in nature or in competitions, which can be a real example for the rest. It’s just that people who have encountered any restrictions in their movement begin to value real, lively communication more, and completely healthy people are fenced off from society. And when comparing, it becomes clear that the virtual world can never push out to the end a real, living person who is able to support and understand!