Clarissa: That Online Friendship is A Fake Relationship

Think of it. When you have an online friend, you may not know their faces right? Yes you may not. But if it isn’t a human you are friends with, is called a real relationship?

Hello there! Today I am going to talk about online friendship is a fake relationship. Before I talk about the motion, I will give you definition. What is friendship? Friendship is a relationship between friends. Do you know what is relationship? Relationship is the state of being connected. Examples of relationships are relationship with our parents, relationship with our friends. If we have relationship with other people, it means we are connected to them. Do you know what is online friendship? Online friendship is a relationship between friends online or on social media. Now, on to my argument.

I agree with this motion because first, sometimes our online friends are not even exist or they are robots. For example, if we have a friend on LINE, we talked to them everyday but when we asked them to take a photo of their self they said no. why? Because they were not allowed to show their face to people or public so the people who chat with the robot does not know the robot’s face or privacy. According to www.businessinsider.com said that Chatbots are artificial intelligence systems that interact with users via messaging, text, or speech. Many are deployed on chatbot platforms such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, Slack, or text messages. Example of Chatbot is Rinna from LINE app. She can chat with everyone in line because she is a robot teenager that Microsoft made with the design of line.

My second argument is that sometimes our friends on social media are fake friends or a person who are willing to kidnap us. If the person ask a lot of things about you even your private things, don’t answer all of the questions or the person might kidnap you. Based on the research www.bbc.com said that there are some case of online kidnappers who kidnapped kids. One of that case is a girl called Alicia Kozakiewicz who was 13 years old when she slipped out of her home in Pittsburgh to meet someone she had been chatting to online. Then, it went terribly wrong. Now, she’s 27 and she wants to help children from kidnappers.

For my answer on the first paragraph is no, it is not real relationship because first, our online friend may not be a human. Yes, it is right because there are Chatbots who can answer hundreds of people chats at the same time. Second is because some of our friends online are kidnappers who are willing to kidnap us, children. Yes it is right because as I said, there are many cases of online kidnapping. So from all of this, I believe that this motion should stand.