Be a Good Online Friend in the AI Era

End-of-lesson check

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1. What makes real online friendship different from AI-mediated friendship?

   1. Real friendship uses video; AI-mediated uses text
   2. Real friendship involves genuine responses from you — your actual thoughts, memories, and care
   3. Real friendship only happens in person
   4. AI-mediated friendship is stronger because the words are better

2. Your friend shares something sad with you online. What is the most genuine response?

   1. Ask AI to write the perfect supportive message and send it unchanged
   2. Take a few minutes to write what you actually feel, even if it comes out imperfect
   3. React with a single emoji and move on
   4. Wait until AI is available to help you respond

3. Is it always wrong to use AI to help with a message to a friend?

   1. Yes — never use AI for any friend communication
   2. No — if AI helps you find better words for something you genuinely mean, that can be okay
   3. Yes — all AI messages feel fake to the receiver
   4. No — you should use AI for all friend messages to avoid saying the wrong thing

4. The 'realness check' before sending an AI-assisted message is:

   1. Checking if the message is grammatically correct
   2. Reading it out loud and asking whether it sounds like you and says what you actually mean
   3. Asking a different friend if they think the message sounds good
   4. Running it through another AI tool to improve it further

5. Your friend eventually realizes you have been using AI to write all your messages to them. What is most likely to happen?

   1. They will be impressed by how well-written your messages are
   2. They may feel the friendship was not real because they were not connecting with you — they were connecting with AI
   3. They will not notice or care
   4. They will ask you to teach them how to do it too

6. What does 'patience is part of real friendship' mean in the context of AI?

   1. You should wait until AI is available before responding
   2. Real conversations take time and effort — resisting the temptation to let AI shortcut all your responses builds stronger connections
   3. You should be patient with AI when it takes time to generate responses
   4. Friendships require waiting for the other person to use AI first

7. Using AI to write all your personal messages to friends because it is faster is most likely to result in:

   1. Stronger friendships because the messages are better quality
   2. Weaker friendships because the connection is being mediated by AI rather than built by your actual presence
   3. No change in the friendship quality
   4. Friends getting more engaged because they receive better-written messages

8. Faking responses to friends using AI 'so you don't have to think' is a problem because:

   1. Thinking is required by law for all digital communications
   2. It removes your genuine presence from the friendship — your friend is interacting with generated text, not you
   3. AI takes too long to generate responses for real-time chat
   4. It uses too much phone battery

9. Which practice is best when AI helps you brainstorm what to say to a friend?

   1. Send AI's response unchanged for the best quality message
   2. Read AI's suggestions, then write your own response in your own words drawing on anything that resonated
   3. Only use AI's first suggestion and ignore the others
   4. Tell your friend that AI helped you write the message

10. What makes an imperfect message you wrote yourself often better than a perfect message AI wrote?

    1. Imperfect messages are easier to read
    2. The effort and authenticity behind your own words show your real care, which is what friendship is built on
    3. Friends always prefer shorter messages
    4. AI messages cannot contain inside jokes or personal references

11. Which is the most honest way to use AI when a friend shares difficult news and you do not know what to say?

    1. Use AI to write a complete response and send it without reading it yourself first
    2. Use AI to brainstorm how to start the conversation, then write the actual message yourself
    3. Tell your friend to ask AI for advice instead of talking to you
    4. Avoid responding until you can figure out the right thing to say without AI

12. Noticing that you have become dependent on AI for all your online communication means:

    1. You have found a very efficient communication system
    2. It may be time to practice writing messages yourself more often to keep your authentic communication skills strong
    3. AI should now handle all your friendships
    4. You should stop using AI entirely and permanently

13. Real friends eventually notice when you are faking your responses with AI because:

    1. AI messages always contain secret watermarks
    2. Your friends know your real voice and communication style — persistent AI messaging will eventually feel different from how you actually talk
    3. Platforms notify users when AI is detected in messages
    4. AI messages are always shorter than human messages

14. Which scenario represents good use of AI in an online friendship?

    1. Using AI to automatically respond to all messages while you are busy
    2. Using AI to help you find the words for a genuine apology you want to make to a friend
    3. Using AI to pretend to be available when you actually do not want to talk
    4. Using AI to figure out what your friend wants to hear rather than what you actually think

15. The central rule for using AI in online friendships is:

    1. Never use AI for any messages to friends
    2. Make sure your genuine self is still showing up in the conversation, even when AI helps with words
    3. Always tell friends which parts of your messages AI wrote
    4. Use AI only when you have more than 5 messages to respond to