Mutual Friends

What does being friends really entail? Can virtual friendship, such as FaceBook, be of equivalent value to an actual face to face encounter? We believe that in today’s society, young people are often so drawn in by the marvel’s of today’s technology, and perhaps even the feeling of virtual popularity, that they forget to exercise caution and skepticism, and are willing to relay trust to people whom, in the streets of the physical world, we wouldn’t share nearly that kind of information with.

Term
Winter 2015
Category
Identity & Selfhood
Short Summary

A project wherein we evaluated how trusting people were of FaceBook and people that added them on this social media platform.