Facebook
pretend friends = F akebook
By: Emily Pinhas
Barkai Yeshiva
Many people have Facebook, Twit-
Social media can be harmful to friend-
By: Diana Hoffstein
Magen David Yeshivah
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter al-
ter, Instagram and other social media.
ship, to the way you see and feel
most everyone has one. It changes
When someone posts a picture and
about yourself and gain respect for
your life and your friendships. You
gets many likes on it, then other, less
yourself. The second you log onto so-
probably don’t even want a Facebook
popular, people try to do something like
cial media, you can gain 500 followers.
or Twitter but you get it so that, maybe,
the popular people. When they
By: Nina D.
Barkai Yeshiva
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you could be just like
the other people who
copy the popular
seem “popular,” but
girls and don’t get
really they are just
the same amount
like you. All you do is
of likes or com-
compare yourself to
ments, they start
your other “friends.”
to think they are
Some might be real.
not as good as
Others are just people
the rest of the
who followed you to
world. It changes
the real person to
be a person who
they want to be
not to be who they
really are. They
act
like
Don’t count the number
gain followers. They
don’t care about you
of friends you have, but
or your personality.
They just want to be
the number of friends
more popular. You try
you can count on
and likes. Why? So
some-
one they are not
to get a lot of friends
you would feel better about yourself? It
just to get ahead
in competition and be popular. It also
But, the second you log off, they dis-
doesn’t make you feel better because
causes people to be jealous of their
appear. They are not there to support
what happens if these social media
friends. They feel that they have to do
and care about you. All you have to do
sites get “unpopular” or “overrated?”
better than all the other girls. It creates
is press one button to gain a friend.
a fake person who just wants to be like
But, you are not making a real effort
all the other girls and not feel left out.
to make a friend, to know how much
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they care about you. The real things
by shul page 104
that will help you in life are the friends
that are real and supportive.
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