May 18, 2010
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Facebook More Vital Than Family
About 28% of children said that social networks like Facebook and Twitter were more vital to them that family. (I received this post idea from My_Final_Username). Here is the link: Link
The poll doesn’t surprise me as people become a little less connected to their families.
So lets take a poll of our own and answer honestly.
1. Real life friends
2. Online friends
3. Family
Which is the most vital to you?
Comments (78)
Family for me, hands down.
1.
#4: dog!
Family, real life friends, then online friends.
real life friends.
1. family
2. close friends
3. Internet friends
Vital in what way?
Emotionally, real life friends. Financially, family.
#1 real life friends …I love my online friends, but usually not in the same way.
But sometimes… it’s weird that you can be more yourself with your online friends. maybe because they don’t really know you and you don’t really care if they pass judgment or not. people on xanga know me better than most of my real life friends know me.
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1> 3 > 2 : in that order
FAMILEEEEEE.
I <3 my online friends and RL friends but family will always be there.
Real life friends,
then family,
then online friends
1.
3 1 2
These damn kids today have weird priorities. Or just shitty families/parents, which also wouldn’t surprise me.
3, which includes most of my real life friends actually. I’m too close to them to not consider them family. But I’d much rather be with my best friends or family than online actually, I just end up here a lot because of everyone else being busy and me not being busy (or procrastinating).
Real friends,
Family,
Online friends.
But I love all of them still.
Family, real life friends, and then online friends.
Are those kids serious? Ugh.
3 > 1 > 2
3, and then 1 and 2 are tied because they are both one in the same.
Family comes first.
1. shh…
@Lordv16 - That’s the problem. It use to be the television that the parents left to babysit the kids, now it’s computer.
3,2 in that order only cus I don’t have RL friends.
Everyone knows what they’re supposed to say to a question like this. It doesn’t reflect the many, many posts I see in which people declare- in the heat of the moment- their internet friends more important to them than anyone they know in real life. “All of you know me better than anybody else!” etc.
can’t we choose 1 and 3? What if our friends include family?
Real friends fo sho.
Family
Real life friends
Online friends (most of whom, are real life friends)
that’s pathetic we need to ask this.
my family causes ridiculous amounts of stress for me but they’re still above friends and online friends.
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family, then.. online and real life friends are tied, since I don’t have many of both that I consider to be “friends”.
Family. Online friends can’t cook me dinner! Real life friends tell me to cook it myself!
That is a real sad state of affairs. Family, then friends, then online stuff. That’s the sensible answer.
Family – no doubt.
I’m not entirely sure…
If it was a situation where I had to choose to only see one group of those people ever again…I would drop my online friends. I love them, but online friends just aren’t the same as real life flesh and blood people. Then I would be torn between family and real life friends. I love my family and I feel a rather deep sense of loyalty towards them, but we aren’t particularly close. My real life friends know me better and I enjoy being around them more. Conflicted!
#3
They’re all the same people.
when i think of what is vital to me, i say that my family comes first. but when i think about how i’ve been placing things in my life lately, i would say that i’m probably putting my real life friends before my family. i don’t have many online friends… actually, i can honestly say i don’t have one friend that i’ve only ever interacted with via the internet.
3. Always.
That we even ask this question is a sign of the end of our civilization.
family
Family.
@MySecretLoveAffair - exactly what i was thinking too.
It’s tough between family and actual friends, but I’d have to say family because they’re the backbone. I’m sure as I get older i’ll veer more towards actual friends.
I think we just tend to take family for granted.
For me, they’re all important. 98% of people I know in all 3 categories use facebook. I have dysphonia which makes talking difficult if not possible at all sometimes, so I use facebook to communicate alot. I mean I check it everyday but I dont like live my life on there like some people. That’s not healthy when you spend more time online than you do in the presence of people. It affects your people skills. There’s good & bad in everything but to me, facebook is good. It makes telling news faster & easier.
Twitter to me is just a hot damn mess. I dont even use it. I have an account but only to follow a few people.
Family. Internet friends can’t really provide the comfort that family can. That and real life friends.
Hrm. I have one “real life” friend, so I won’t even count that for a group. My family may drive me crazy, but I actually know them and crap, so three then two.
My family comes first. No, really, it does. Everything else is much lower importance. My real life friends and my online friends often intertwine, so I can’t say which of those I would consider of secondary importance. That means that I’ve met a lot of my online friends, so they’re not much different from my regular IRL friends.
@relaxolgy - Hi friend!
Definitely not online friends, though most of my online friends are real life friends anyway. I know that I spend more time with my friends than my family, but that doesn’t mean I care for one over the other, and I think my friends are really like family, so they’re probably about even. Though, we were reading Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding in my Brit Lit class, and we discussed the way people kind of make their own families out of friends these days. Everything is relative.
well family is first, but i also don’t blame those who chose differently, there are some pretty fucked up families out there. But for me yes family first, then online friends… and as for real friends i don’t have that many, and even with them, we haven’t talked in months so yes i cherish my online buds more, they’re there when i need to let off how i feel.
Real life friends forever. It’s just tough to find good ones.
Video Games.
mmm.. family.
Family
1
Without at least certain members of my family I would go crazy, and my real life and online friends change or leave every few years.
Although at one point in my life for a couple years my only real friends were my online ones.
Between internet and online friends: I get to talk to my internet friends everyday. My real friends have moved out of the state for college so I only see them during the summer, if that. So in general I have more fun with them but I probably consider online friends closer since they know more about me and what goes on in my life.
3 2 1
1) Family because I would not know what I do without them
2) Real friends I have a few. I don’t get out much
3) On-line friends, since I would probably not get the chance to met these.
None. I am most vital to me.
Friends, family, they all can and may leave. You… you’re stuck with yourself no matter what. And you’re the only person you are accountable to in the end.
All else is… transient.
Family
1 & 3, equally.
Nothing matters more than family.
1. Immediate family
2. real life friends3. internet friends4. extended familyto be fair, I’m not a fan of most of my relatives, which is the only reason I put internet friends higher.
My family
Real-life friends.
Oddly enough (and really creepy, considering what these people did for a living and fun), I had the most online friends as a middle-schooler. I haven’t talked to any of them in a long long time.
Sometimes online friends are more helpful and caring than your real life friends. Sometimes family is terrible. It differs for each person.
Family. <3
Family.
3, 1, 2. As soon as I get back home, where my family and friends are, I probably will never be on the internet.
3, 1, 2. family is always first. but i live hours away from my family and friends so facebook is a great way for me to connect with them.
Family of course!
Family first–the little I have.
As life continues friends tend to forget about me.
People always ask me why I only have fewer than 170 friends on facebook. It’s only because I only accept people I know. I don’t accept random people, and only to people who I’ve met in real life and who I know.
But real life friends is more important to me, I hate my family
1 > 2 > 3. my friends, offline or not, know more and care more about me than my family. I love my mom and brother but my dad is a major asswipe and I’ve never been close with my extended family.
real life friends.