‘Friendship Day’ was celebrated yesterday, 2nd August being the 1st Sunday of the month with great fanfare & enthusiasm in Chennai metro city . Greetings poured through Facebook, Twitter, and What’sApp.
The saying goes that the fragrance of friendship bussing among friends is much more than the real flowers growing in the plants! USA was the country which announced the Friendship Day! It was introduced for a resolution in their parliament in the year 1935. The resolution was passed declaring the 1st August of every year to be compulsory holiday and celebrated as Friendship Day.
From that period when it was started in UAS, Friendship Day has grown and spread across different countries in the world and celebrated.
There is a popular saying that there is no better asset in the world than having a friend to share one’s joys & sorrows!
During the early days, letters served for exchange of information among friends.
Today, internet has dominated this as well and served to expand the ever-increasing friendship between different persons. Social networking media such as Facebook, Twitter, and What’sApp are the latest media for sharing friendship.
Apart from the known acquaintances, the trend of making new friends is also spreading like fire.
Friendship Day celebrated yesterday was really on giant scale with friends sharing their greetings and nostalgic occasions/events with videos/photos of the school & college days!
Friends seeing each other after a long time exchanged pleasantries and greeting at the popular Marin Beach in Chennai! Some of them presented gifts to their friends. They went to see the movies as per their choice and enjoyed the occasion even better!
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