Comments on: Lonely Teen Robbed of a Childhood by Leukemia Advertises for Friends Online

By: Lacey

Lacey — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:53:50 +0000

@U.N. Owen – Is it not possible that the millennials’ concept of friendship is different than other generations? I’m GenX, so I don’t know how they think, but ideas like friendship are not concrete from one person to the next, let alone from one generation to another. Isn’t it possible that, where we geezers need to have shared significant face-to-face time with someone to call them ‘friend’, the experience of the generation raised on the internet is that closeness can be established without? I just think you reacted quite negatively to a story about a guy who genuinely wanted to connect with people (and he asked to meet people in his home town, btw). Maybe step back and remember how fluid and changeable life is and enjoy the knowledge that nothing you ever did in middle school “went viral”. Sheesh, can you imagine?

By: STX

STX — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 01:15:58 +0000

@U.N. Owen – Seriously? Could you be anymore negative? A person seeks change in their life and all you can do is criticize them? You’re a sorry, sad individual.

Good on you Jordan, ignore negative people like this. Do what is right for you!

By: U.N. Owen

U.N. Owen — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:37:00 +0000

This idea – shopping, the internet for friends, is probably the most profound example of how utterly f’ed up the ‘millennials’, et al., are.

If one were to ask one of these twits; ‘how many friends have you’, they’d (stupidly) count all those on ‘social’ media who’ve ‘friended’ them, as real, genuine friends.

They’re NOT. They’re ACQUAINTANCES.

I leanrt a rule a long time ago about an easy way to tell a person how many true – real (3D!!!) friends, one has;

A good friend’s someone you can ring in the middle of the night, and without explaining, say I need to come over, and sleep tonight., and without hesitation, they agree.

It turns out most people have from 2-6 friends – the rest are acquaintances (and if one doesn’t know the difference between a ‘friend’ and an ‘acquaintance’, then, they’ve really got problems.

Of the small group of friends, people have (usually) 1-2+/- really good friends.

Saying all this, a relationship – ANY kind of relationship – is built up – over TIME, through shared experiences, from exchanging of information (‘chatting’) – about life, in general, etc.

Not only does this guy- Jordan – have serious problems, this ridiculous approach to getting ‘instant friends’ (‘just add water, and stir! Presto – instant friends’).

No one – N-O O-N-E – has the so-called average’ life!

Just like Jordan, I, too, was ill from age 6-8, and I had further problems going into my teen -years, and though my problems are somewhat different, the point is the same, but, this fallacy – of Justin supposedly not having ANY friends, is part media creation (and, obviously Jordan, which I’ll get back to in a second) is so utterly ridiculous once a person thinks about this.

According to Jordan, he ‘ love(s) cricket and footy and going to the gym,”

Is there a reason he can’t GO to a gym and start chatting with people? If he’s such an avid cricketeer, is he (currently) on some team? If not, then he SHOULD be.

Ths ‘problem’ is ficticioI, and.