Virtual friends are in trouble not assistants

Do not flatter yourself ahead of time, if the number of your friends on social networks passed for hundreds or even thousands. As the researchers found, at these friends still can not rely on.

Some active Internet users social sites   like "Discover" or Facebook is a lot virtual friends But in moments of true tests or crises almost none of them comes in and does not withstand scrutiny difficulties. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from the association of cancer patients Macmillan Cancer Support.

They found that the modern young man on a page in Social website   237 friends in average. But in the real support it can refer only to the two of them. Poll thousand people aged 18 to 35 years showed that 70% of them have one or two of these a friend on a social site that can really help.

In 13% of users with hundreds   virtual friends There is no one present, which they thought would be close enough to ask for help. And how many would not have told beautiful stories about male friendship, we interviewed men more often than women did not have reliable friends - 16% versus 12%.

The study authors called the findings surprising, and even frightening. They believe that social networks create many users the illusion of friendship, depriving incentives to develop non-virtual and real relationships. But when it comes to the need to experience the friends are in trouble, that in fact it turns out that none of them can really help.

Psychology

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