1. Reflective essay

2. How to write a Reflective essay?
This type of essay is aimed to reflect a personal event or experience of the essay author.
The main condition is that it has to be a certain personal experience on which the author has his very own perception.
This experience or even is revealed in the essay in order to demonstrate its importance for understanding social relations and the essence of people.

3. It may be said that a reflective essay possess the traits of a philosophical analysis of different experiences we face in our everyday life.
This type of essay reveals the creativity of the students and their ability to change standard perception to a unique one, to their own unique perception of social issues

4. Writing a Reflective essay
In order to produce an excellent reflective essay it is vital to remember that the reflective is to have a personal character and to relate to certain philosophic categories.
This implies a wide range of possible understanding of the topic of the essay. One of the widespread topics for a reflective essay is “What is love?” in which the author shares his own reflective of this term through the prism of his experience and the common attitude to this social phenomenon.

5. The majority of the questions in such essays are rhetoric
Reflective essays topics and ideas.
Reflective essays can be written on many different topics which base on the reflection of a personal event or experience of the essay author. Delicate approach to the choice of a topic or keen understanding of the one topic is the key element of good essay writing. 

6. Reflective essay structure
The aim of the opening paragraph is to get the reader involved in the author’s story including interesting details, personal experiences.
The style must be very vivid and therefore to appeal to the reader as if it was a tete-a-tete conversation on the meaning of life or love.
The middle part reveals a good variety of the author’s ideas on the topic.
The concluding sentences summarize the main ideas and experiences of the essay. The author makes a reflective of his general perception of the given topic.

7. Example
Facebook Friendship
By Bryant A.
The Internet nowadays plays a significant role in people’s careers, relationships, and other spheres of life. Since it started to gain popularity in early 1990s, it has turned into a global network, connecting any individual who can afford having a computer to the rest of the world.

8. Gradually, services allowing to make new friends and to stay in touch with already acquired friends started to appear, and today billions of people use various social networks, of which the largest is Facebook. These social networks still remain a debated phenomenon, as well as the consequences they lead to and the way they have changed societies. And perhaps, one of the strangest (at least to me) phenomenon connected to them is Facebook friendship.

9. But in actuality, people add unfamiliar people, whom they have never met or known. Even if they have never exchanged words, they still keep each other in their friend lists. Or another example is when colleagues who work in the same office add each other, but do not communicate with each other in Facebook or even in the office. Or when random people who have (under some circumstances) communicated for a couple of minutes, then add each other to their friend lists. Sometimes people even add other users to their friend lists for a show of quantity—perhaps, it is meant to show how sociable they are. These, as well as many other similar cases, I do not understand, and this is one of the reasons why I choose not to use facebook for such futile purpose.

10. In my opinion, social networks, and what is connected to maintaining relationships between people in virtual reality, negatively affects the real-life experience of communication and socialization. Based on my observations, I believe active social media users sometimes have issues with expressing themselves in real-life, preferring to do it in a “safer” online environment. I think this is the matter of significant importance that somehow needs to be dealt with.