Faux Friendship
(William Deresiewicz)
MKT 100
Classroom Exercise
(Fall, 2011)
Team 1.
• Q1.What does the term faux mean?
• Q2.What language does this term originate from?
• Q3.Who in society determines the meaning(s) of
the word “friendship”? How is the meaning of a
word created, negotiated, and altered?
• Q4.Identify the five most difficult words in this
essay.
Team 2.
• What part(s) of this essay does your team
agree with the most and why?
Team 3.
• What part(s) of this essay does your team
agree with the least and why?
Team 4.
• Dr. Deresiewicz suggests that character is the
most important element of friendship.
• Provide one or more arguments (if any) that
support this premise.
• Provide one or more arguments (if any) that
challenge this premise.
Team 5.
• Dr. Deresiewicz suggests that “…the people that
you know when you are 18…are not the people
you should know when you are 40.”
• Provide one or more arguments (if any) that
support this premise.
• Provide one or more arguments (if any) that
challenge this premise.
Team 6.
• An important trend in virtual, online technology
is “social networking”.
• Q1.How do the individuals in your team go about
choosing whom to friend in a virtual, online
“social” network? That is, what attributes of the
person are the most important?
• Q2.What are the strengths (if any) and
weaknesses (if any) to virtual, online “social”
networks?
Team 7.
• An important trend in virtual, online technology is
“social networking”. We presume, therefore, that
“social” networking provides “social” value. It could
also be that there are other important values as well.
• Q1. How do the individuals in your team go about
choosing whom to friend in an “intellectual” network
(online or off-line)?
• Q2. How do the individuals in your team go about
choosing whom to friend in an “economic” network
(online or off-line)?
Team 8.
• Q1. In your seven weeks at CSUN, describe how any
kind of “social”, “intellectual”, and “economic”
networking technology has helped or hindered your
academic success.
• Q2. In your seven weeks at CSUN, describe how the
individuals in your team have changed how they make
(online or off-line) friends.
• Q3. Open question. If your team could change
anything—anything at all—about the University, what
would it be and why?