Under the Friendship page, viewers are able to receive frienship advice, with topics such as problems with friends, making and keeping friends, friend needing support, and friendship discussion and ideas. There are also various topics such as more than friends advice where people can check and get clarifications on how to know if it is more than friends, on their sexuality, and relationship advice and there is also life advice offered as well. When it comes to the extent of the issues raised in the advice forum reflecting challenges to friendship discussed in the chapter, an example can be how in the forum under pressures with friends, there are different questions and concerns addressed such as if their losing their best friend, if there's an emotional distant friend, rekindling friendship with a girl if it is a male, etc.
A prime example of a comparison with the forum and the text is on pressures on friendships under sexual attraction. A male in the forum addresses his concerns about dating one of best female friends then they broke up, and they both mutually decided they were best as friends. He wants to surprise her with a video game she had been wanting and wasn't sure if it was cheesy or would be awkward or not. As the text suggests under sexual attraction, "sexual attraction can cause difficulty between friends. Friendships between heterosexual men and women or between gay men or lesbians often include sexual tensions" (Wood, 2010, pg.265). The challenge mentioned in the forum is that this male and female were at a party after their break up and they were back to being friends again and they were both having fun with each other and they missed old times. They looked at each other as brother and sister. The text states, that there is usually sexual tension between friends, or there could be, however with this friendship there is no longer sexual tension, it is just hard for these two because they are doing their best to rekindle their friendship and it seems as it is working.
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