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Friendships in the Digital Age

Aykut Gül
2 min readApr 7, 2024

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Life carries on in any event…

Friends become strangers, friends fade away, and friendships change over time.

You frequently learn about your friends' suffering, happiness, or success from irrelavent people or the internet, sometimes very late, and you are unsure of how to respond.

The speed of change in the digital world is also reflected in our private lives.

Contacts have almost disappeared. It has changed, even though there is still wonder, fear, and melancholy surrounding them.

How tragic that you are unable to learn of or celebrate your friends' victories or losses when you fight side by side! The majority of the time, what you hear makes you feel weird inside.

That being said, you are happy for him when he succeeds and saddened when he fails.

Similar to how your friends and acquaintances used to be curious about you and have no news to share.

Everybody's top priority, worry, and concern is only for himself and the cocoon he is stuck in.

How did this sudden shift occur?

How were our values lost?

All of the cultures, customs, and beliefs that sustain our society are fractured and corrupted, particularly the institution of the family.

Before it is too late, it is our responsibility to combat this. In particular, educators’...

Last but not least, “A friend is the one who wipes away tears without being noticed,” says Fethi Gemuhluoğlu.

Do you think such friends still remain?

If you said "yes," then you have to be the one that God has honored.

Aykut GÜL

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Aykut Gül

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