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The Facebook generation has more meaningful friends than the post-war generation.

 

 

The Facebook generation has more meaningful friends than the post-war generation.

To those who hark back to an era of face to face contact and criticise the social media’s online relationships, you may be wrong.

A study by an associate professor of history at Exeter University has found that in the post-war golden age of tight-knit communities it was actually an era of families fighting, neighbours arguing, and difficult friendships. Neighbours would often have fraught relationships and many people would jealously guard their privacy.

Social media has been linked to loneliness and poor mental health among the young. But the professor believes it is wrong to blame the disappearance of traditional communities. He has called for more consideration about how social media allows users to connect with friendships.

He believes that the  Facebook generation forge a lot more worthwhile social connections which are based on choice and not proximity.

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