With a great variety of social networking websites, people often add complete strangers to their lists. Do you think that this tendency helps people to find new friends or it's just a mean to increase their self-esteem. Justify your opinion with relevant examples.

In the present age, social

media

gain great popularity among the public and they add unfamiliar individuals to their friend lists. Some

people

assert that the main reason for

this

trend is increasing individuals’ self-confidence,

whereas

many others argue that they just want to make new

friends

. Personally, I’m in favour of the latter view. First of all, I believe that

time

has changed and the public contact each other via the internet.

In other words

, almost everybody spends their day surfing social

media

and chatting;

therefore

, they don’t have extra

time

to go out and find new

friends

.

For example

, these days, children prefer to play with their tablets or smartphones

instead

of playing outdoors and

this

leads them to have virtual

friends

and contact them online.

Likewise

, the youth spend the majority of their

time

online

instead

of wandering outside.

Secondly

, social networking websites are the best way to find your ideal friend, especially for shy

people

because on social websites everybody has a variety of options and they can easily communicate with them without any problem.

For instance

, in reality, students can communicate with almost two or three of their classmates but on social

media

, they can contact all their peers at the same

time

, and familiar with their feathers, and eventually choose the best one among them.

To conclude

, I strongly believe that

people

use social

media

to make

friends

and socialization because now, it’s a technology era, and

also

people

can select arbitrary

friends

online via the internet.