P ersonal C onnections
in the digital age
B y : O l g a Ta w i l
Barkai Yeshiva
Friendship through social media has
I think when people get into a fight with
B y : Ta l i Z a b a r i
Barkai Yeshiva
Social media affects your identity and
changed over the years. Social media
their close friends and text them while
who you are. It affects the way you in-
can lower your self esteem. When you
they are in a fight can often be meaner
teract with your friends. Let’s say you
see profiles with more followers than
than how you would talk to them in
have a Facebook and you get upset
you, you feel less important. You feel
person. Sometimes, if they text you
at your friend. You want to talk it out
bad that you aren’t as popular or don’t
about how they feel, they would also
with her so you send her a message
have
as
friends.
that’s
many
But,
not
By: Sara Sultan
Barkai Yeshiva
SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY CENTER
At TorahValues.com
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saying,
“Why
are
you being so mean
to me?” Your friend
Most friends on
gets very offended
social media are
because
fake and many
what you sent from
of them you don’t
a different perspec-
even know at all.
tive. So, it’s different
So,
you
talking to someone
someone
on the internet than
see
with
when
many
fol-
lowers, most of
them aren’t their
true friends. True
friends are friends
who are kind and
care about you
and not people
she
saw
Spend time with
talking it out with
friends who make
front of you with your
you happy, not who
meaning them from
you have to impress
have social media,
your friend right in
actual
words
and
your heart. If you do
be careful what you
who push the ‘fol-
post and what you
low’ button. People with fake friends
jump to conclusions and say hurt-
say because everyone always sees
will never know how it feels to have
ful words that they don’t really mean.
and
S tudents
real friends. If you don’t put in your effort to make friends, then you never
really know who they are and how it
feels to have true friends. On social
media, you see only what’s on the outside and not the person’s personality.
interprets
words
differently.
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