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Is Virtual Friendship Better ?

Should we see virtual friendships as a competitor to real friendships? Does virtual friendship which is relatively new, mean our world is not focusing on the real!  I disagree and to show you why we will have to go back into the pre-internet era. I am sure that you would be surprised if I tell you that virtual friendship is quite old. Not many of us have heard about pen pals which was the pre-internet version of virtual friendship. Where you would connect with people who were mostly strangers by exchanging letters via postal mail. You would write a letter with a pen, put it into an envelope. Paste a postal stamp and put it in a letterbox. A painstakingly long process in today’s terms and by no means as instant and as efficient as an email. So virtual friendship is not at all new, it was here even before the internet Now, what makes virtual friendship extremely important? First, virtual friendship makes distance relatively and figuratively irrelevant because you can have friends not jus