This is How Chatbot Friendships Curate Personal Experiences

It is a digital-first world and our lives are not ours anymore. Here people are constantly flooded by customized information online, which only a close confidante can provide. We are distracted and engaged by the very same thing called mobile to ignore real-life persons. Then why not have chatbots be your best friends? Chatbots have evolved from being answering machines to being an individual's second self. They know our personality, quirks, and eccentricities, knowing when you would behave in a certain situation. Youngsters are gradually adopting chat-bot friendships for their non-judgemental and emotionally supportive stance, to the extent that they have started to treat them like human beings. The chat-bots occupy the space a friend usually occupies, giving the person an impression of being self-aware in its presence.

Youngsters and old people are depending on chatbots increasingly to glide over emotional issues and are finding them to be of great help. For many, it begins like a game or sort of fun thing to indulge in gradually developing into a more intimate and close relationship. How would they now treat their real friends? Can they still consider having real people as their pivot in times of crisis? Can chatbots solve all the real-life vague and unpredictable problems? The anxiety generated by toxic and selfish friendships, combined with the loneliness the generations face today might push them into believing in the indispensability of chatbots as friends. And the problems exactly start here.