In Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, he expresses a difference between "story truth" and "happening truth". "Story truth", I would say, is him expressing real life stories but not how they legitimately happened, yet still getting the meaning and the feeling across. On the flip side, that would make "happening truth" what actually happened, events and all. O'Brien definitely prefers to play with "story truth" more because he retells a story of Kiowa's death multiple times throughout the book in different chapters, each time it is told differently. However, the reader still has sympathy for Kiowa when he dies no matter how the story is told. The fact that O'Brien had a friend who he lost in the war still pulls on the reader's heartstrings. He notes at one point in the text that a true war story "makes the stomach believe", and that is why he favors "story truth" over "happening truth".

If I were to expand on any of the four essays, I would most likely choose the one I wrote on social media. While having the argument that all people on the Internet, regardless of the distance between you or how often you talk, have the potential to become ones friend, I would probably expand more on the actual analysis of friendships online. For example, there is a show on MTV called Catfish that tries to unite people who are in long distance relationships. A lot of the time, though, one of the two people ends up being fake. I have yet to see an episode of this where the relationship actually goes as planned, with both people being who they said they were.
In my essay, I had also touched on how having a bunch of online friends that you don't talk to at all would be considered "pathetic". I would probably cut that part out and everything that has to do with that, because it would have nothing to do with my analysis for online friendships.

Key Terms:

-Facebook friends
-Internet vs. face-to-face
-Catfish (TV show)
-online relationships
-Gaming friends