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Rory Varrato debuted on Ted Talk discussing his view on friendships and how society is so infatuated with technology. With this infatuation growing rapidly we lose the sense of understanding genuine emotion. What causes the urge of wanting to “post a status” or express what we are “feeling” online? Asking myself this I began to dig deeper into the root of understanding what friendships truly are. Social psychologist Gerbert J. T. Haselager ran lead on a social experiment dividing preadolescents and adolescents to study their social age group. Clustering each age group together they analyzed their behavioral responses and profiled them into three categories: Socially Withdrawn friendship, Prosocial friendship, and Antisocial
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