realfriends: stop cliquing, start connecting

"realfriends" is a social action project created by a group of Grade 12 students in rural Nova Scotia. The purpose of realfriends is to create a face-to-face social network, connecting as many people as possible in order to help institutional climates and communities become more social. realfriends addresses the growing concern among young people that they are missing face-to-face social connections due to the increased dependency on technology to interact with others. This collection of student essays offers insights into the importance of "real" friends, the social problems created by technological dependency, the ways in which we might change societal behaviour, as well as reflections about their social action project, realfriends.