Do the “computer generation” use this word in another way then their parents or older siblings do? The author of the article : Facebook dumbing friendships down? Says that he feels the need to introduce his friends as really good or very close friends because the word friend can be used on almost anyone. To call somebody your friend today you just need to be superficially familiar with the person. According to the writer of this article, this is all because of the application on Facebook where you are suppose to have all your friends listed. Users do not only have their friend on Facebook but also people that you might not call your friend in real life. But is that wrong? I understand this thinking but I also think that with the growth of Facebook, the persons who use it grows with the new language and the new meaning of words. Meaning that if I introduce somebody as my friend, the person we talk to will know that this could be a close friend to me even if I don’t specificity point that out.

The article: Time’s person of the year: You, tells the reader that the World Wide Web actually is you. The web is you and me, because we are the persons who take of our spare time to make movies or texts to post on our blogs or on YouTube. We use the internet to keep contact with people that we might not would have known today if there were no internet or website where you collect your friends. To be a part of the World Wide Web is like growing with the development of the new sites and also with the new meaning of words, like the word friend. Everybody that is there, on the Internet, knows what we mean when we say that somebody is our friend. Sure, the meaning of the word might have changed, but the users have changed with it.

The conclusion of all this is that the word friend may have a different meaning among young people today then it had before, but it is a bad thing? I don’t think so, because the people who use the changed word changed with the word and understand it’s new meaning. The change is because of internet, but understanding is thanks to internet.