Andrew

Andrew
 * What is your name?**

Royal Womans Hospital, Melbourne Australia
 * Where were you born?**

1 sister
 * How many brothers or sisters do you have?**

Stacey
 * What are their names?**

someone who you can trust, and you see very often
 * How do you define a friend?**

helpful, caring, and trustworthy. someone that you know and understands you and trusts you! they're kind and understanding with whatever concerns you. they are loyal and True, and stand by you through everything.
 * What does it mean to be a real friend?**

Facebook...
 * Do you use social networking? Which?**

150+
 * How many friends do you have on a social networking site?**

some are close friends (best friends)... and some you just have (aquaintance)
 * What is the difference between these friends and others?**

four: mum, dad, sister me :)
 * How many people are in your family?**

**__quote:__** //"lifes too short to live the same day twice" "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."//

This picture is of the 'meteora '(Μετέωρα Greek Orthodox monasteries) in Greece. i chose this because i have always wanted to go there. these buildings are monestries build in ancient times to keep away from invadors so people can pray in peace. Monks still currently live here...


 * __friends and family in Japanese: お友達やご家族__**


====Family and friends to me are completely different things. A family can be defined as ‘ parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.’ But friends are different in many ways, ‘a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.’ Family is something special, you cannot choose who is in your family, and they are somehow to me spiritually attached. Friends come and go, that is why they aren’t classified as family. ‘Blood is thicker than water’ is a saying that can describe the difference. I strongly agree with the statement “Television and the internet have destroyed time spent with family and friends.” ====


====Web based social networking occurs through a verity of westies that allow users to share content, content interact, and develop communities around similar interests via the internet. This means that individuals are significantly spending a lot less time most importantly with their families! This may cause a verity of problems within families, such as increased verbal fights, and miscommunication, but most importantly teens are missing out of family time, love, and sharing problems. ====


====Spending more time on the computer and TV, means that generations become more and more unhealthy. Although it can cause a range of problems family time is most at risk, and this isn’t good for Australian families. Going on computer and television puts a lot of social aspects at risk, because lack of communication this means that families aren’t spending vital time on important things, this means that families arn't talking to each other about certian problems, and this may lead to much bigger problems. ====


====Taking away socializing in a family unit is a very significant problem. By spending hours on electronic devices leads towards family break-ups, and other horrific incidences. When teens spend less time in the family, parents are no longer able to talk, and share with them. This shows that parents cannot help and show support towards teens, due to electronics allowing people to spend less time with their families. When this family unit is disrupted by TV and computers families have no way to communicate and no ways to ‘be a family’. ====


====Although you can’t prevent families from Television and the internet we can minimize the time spent, by using rules like: only go on for 1 hour, going out as a family, and doing simple things like all having dinner and playing a board game. ====


====I strongly know that “Television and the internet have destroyed time spent with family and friends.”! It is ripping families and friends apart, and there is a major lack in communication and love throughout family/friend units! ====


==== **__By Andrew K. 9GU 435words~  __**====