New Age Friendships - Do They Have Expiry Dates Preset?

People of the older generation looked for friends.They got friends.
Our generation is more keen on networking.
A few still want friends,in the real meaning of the word.But to the other person one can be just another dot in their network.
There is so much of fragility,ego and fakeness everywhere that yeah "friendships" are hard to find.
Every relation who invests in the other tries to redeem at the earliest as if it is a short term market.