Bar Mitzvah Magazine 2013
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Facebook pretend friends = Fakebook<br />
BNEI YOSEF CONG.<br />
BYC<br />
At TorahValues.com<br />
By: Samantha Chabot<br />
search shul abbreviation<br />
<strong>Bar</strong>kai Yeshiva<br />
True friendship is one of the most important<br />
things in your life and it’s being<br />
ruined by social media. Social media<br />
allows friendship to be a click of a<br />
button. Someone could have a million<br />
‘friends’ on Facebook, but, out of<br />
those, how many are genuine friends?<br />
From the 300 friends<br />
Almost every kid and adult has either<br />
a Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account.<br />
that you have on<br />
You might ask what is wrong,<br />
why is it bad? On someone’s birthday<br />
Facebook, how many<br />
a person might get a text or tweet<br />
of “Happy Birthday” but what does it<br />
of them are real?<br />
mean? You don’t put any effort in saying<br />
it. The person gets so happy that<br />
she got a million texts that say “Happy<br />
By: Gabriel Bildirici<br />
<strong>Bar</strong>kai Yeshiva<br />
By: Rachel Gammal<br />
Magen David Yeshivah<br />
Birthday” but, in the real world, did<br />
any one of them make an effort to<br />
When you log on to any social media,<br />
you waste time on trying to keep up<br />
with the whole world rather than building<br />
Social media can ruin a friendship. A<br />
girl has an Instagram and took a picture<br />
with her friend. Her friend looked<br />
say it in person? Social media takes<br />
away reality and people along with it.<br />
By: Bobby Matalon<br />
and growing relationships. Real<br />
<strong>Bar</strong>kai Yeshiva<br />
gorgeous and wanted to post it but<br />
friends will be there for you if you need<br />
Did you ever have a real friend? Well,<br />
the girl looked not as pretty in it. So,<br />
help. No one posts on Facebook what’s<br />
Facebook tricks your mind. Facebook<br />
the friend posted the picture but she<br />
real. As a result, everyone thinks you<br />
makes you believe that, if you get<br />
are someone who you aren’t. It doesn’t<br />
matter if you don’t have a lot of followers<br />
as long as you have your friends.<br />
By: Susan Esses<br />
<strong>Bar</strong>kai Yeshiva<br />
You can’t find real friends because<br />
cropped the girl out. To the girl, she<br />
looked pretty. So, the friend posted<br />
the picture and the girl looked on Instagram<br />
and saw her picture and she<br />
wasn’t in it. So, the girl asked her<br />
“Friended,” it means you got a friend.<br />
But, while you think you have friends,<br />
you don’t know them in real life. Maybe<br />
the reason you got friended is because<br />
the person who friended is saying,<br />
you are too busy chas-<br />
friend, “Why did you take me out of<br />
“Oh look. If I friend this popular<br />
ing everyone else. It makes you<br />
feel as if you have a lot of friends<br />
when, meanwhile, you really don’t.<br />
the picture?” The friend answered,<br />
“Because you didn’t look pretty.” The<br />
girl got so mad. She went home and<br />
guy, then he’ll friend me and because<br />
he friended me everyone will friend<br />
me. That’s how people think on Facebook.<br />
Most of the time people who<br />
unfollowed her on Instagram, Facebook,<br />
Twitter. She never talked to her friend you on Facebook are fake. They<br />
See names of authors<br />
by shul page 104<br />
again on social media and in real life. are just using you to get followers.<br />
68 <strong>Bar</strong>/Bat <strong>Mitzvah</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> 718-909-6060 View magazine online at BMmagazine.com