...I think the article “is Facebook making us lonely?” is a well written article. Stephen starts off with an example of a woman dying and connects it to the social network because her computer was left on. I think him starting off with this was a good choice as it captured the mind of his readers, pushing us to read more. Also this article had all the right references which show that the writer did his research before putting it out there. He explains Facebook gives us the sense of actually having enough bonds on the internet making that an excuse not to make them in real life. He explained what Facebook actually does to people. It weakens their bonds physically. He says that “crowded parties can be agony” which I think is a deep statement. This tells us that sometimes we just need time to ourselves away from people. I also think Stephen was all over the place in this article. Yes, he quotes famous researchers. He explains what they actually mean, but he doesn’t explain what he thinks until the very end. He thinks that Facebook is not making us lonely. Stephen also repeats some phrases. For example he says loneliness and being alone isn’t the same thing more than once in his article, making it lose its effect on the readers. Of course the word lonely had to come up a lot in this article, because that’s what the article is all about. I think Stephen Marche did all this to capture our minds, to make us read to the end. We all wanted to know what the answer to the title of this...
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...of paper: Optional) Final Summary Essays Sentence: The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever. Paragraph: In Stephen Marche’s article, Facebook is a reason people are becoming move lonely and standard. The relationship between technology and loneliness is strong. According to the article people who spend their time on devices and social network sights are finding themselves lacking in the ability to communicate in person. One effect that is brought up throughout the article is loneliness, in which is made the more often one drowns themselves in social media. Facebook in particular, is the target of this article, with its enormous audience, Facebook is the go-to website to see latest gossip, get in touch with everyone, and be in touch with everyone. The research put into the Lonely topic consists of psychologist’s opinions and real events. Unfortunately, technology gives one access to the internet, allowing one to be deeply drowned within the internet’s vast ocean of information. What's more, in the article, the author shows us many other researches and examples from professional study about technology including Facebook made people lonely to support his idea like Moria Burke, John Cacioppo and Sherry Turtle. So in other word, social media can cause a person...
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...the Relationship of Facebook Usage and Loneliness Research Proposal (it was NOT conducted) Abstract The popularity of Facebook among internet users has increased, yet at the same time people start noticing the negative life influence that Facebook brings to its users. The present study furthers our understanding in how the use of Facebook affects one’s feeling of loneliness among fresh graduates who are experiencing life changing events. We look at the number of Facebook friends users have, the amount of time they spend on Facebook, the number of status posted, the number of post liked by others, and the number of pieces of personal information they share. We expect to see a strong correlation between general Facebook use and users’ sense of loneliness. However, the number of like received from others might not have a direct relationship with users’ loneliness. Result of our study could be applied to the educational field, where both teachers and students could benefit. Introduction As social media is getting more popular, Facebook is one of the few social networking sites that have generated great attention. It provides people a platform for communication and a wide range of functions, such as posting status reflecting their daily lives, liking other’s status or photo by clicking the thumb, and to share users’ personal data with others. According to the Statistics Portal (2014), Facebook is the world's leading social networking websites with 1,280 million...
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... Alfarajat English 100 BC Page 7/17/2014 Essay #1 3rd draft Could the millions of Facebook users be lonely? Stephen Marche in his article “Is Facebook making us Lonely?”(The Atlantic Monthly) discusses whether Facebook makes people lonely or not. The author thinks that Facebook makes people lonely and isolated from their families or even from society. Also being lonely decreases the opportunity of exercising and increases the opportunity of illness. I believe that Facebook does not make people lonely because lonely people are lonely with it or without it, Facebook makes people socialize more and have closer relationships with each other. First of all, lonely people are often lonely whether they have Facebook or not. Marche says, “Burke’s research does not support the assertion that Facebook create loneliness. The people who experience loneliness on Facebook are lonely away from Facebook”. (2012) These people isolate themselves from interacting with their families, friends or society. For example, my neighbor Yafy uses Facebook always, but he does not go out with friends. Also he does not sit with his family. In my opinion he has already isolated himself from family and friends. Sometime he tries to talk to people via Facebook, so Facebook never lead to loneliness. Second, Facebook users can socialize more with each other. When Facebook users see that their friend is happy or sad in a Facebook status, they may be led to interact with that friend face to face. Marche says, “The...
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...aspects. Some of these people can be in a crowd full of people and still feel alone. There are other people that can literally be alone, but not feel like they are. This feeling of loneliness affects how people interact with each other and their behavior. I will be researching how the feeling of loneliness drives people to use the internet more often within a group of 10 people. I will focus primarily on social media usage, such as Facebook. I predict that the more social media an individual uses, the lonelier they feel. One way of thinking about loneliness is as a difference between one's desired and achieved levels of social interaction, while solitude is simply the lack of contact with people. There is clearly a difference in the two. Loneliness is more of the way a person feels; if a person thinks they are lonely, and then they are lonely. People can be lonely while in solitude, or in the middle of a crowd. A person is lonely when they want more social interaction than what is currently available. This is why somebody can be alone and not feel lonely. If a person gets too little or too much social interaction, this could lead to feelings of loneliness or over-stimulation. One study found that although time spent alone tended to depress a person's mood and increase feelings of loneliness; it also helped to improve their cognitive state. Solitude can have positive effects on individuals. Once the alone time was over, people's moods tended to increase significantly. This could...
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...social networking sites to communicate with family, friends, and acquaintances. This reduces the time we are spending exercising and engaging in physical activities for physical health. We are becoming a society of overweight couch potatoes who spend too much time on-line while healthy lifestyle habits fall by the wayside. However, there are positive impacts on our culture because of the invention of the internet and social media; we are able to keep in contact with those we want to interact with around the clock, any time of day or night. We share music, videos, and pictures with all of our friends through social networking sites and we can post comments and information on our friends’ pages with ease. We can log onto sites that show us creative ways to do all kinds of interesting crafts and projects. Then we can share those ideas with hundreds of people. These are amazing capabilities and this has changed the way we communicate with each other. The generation that is greatly benefiting from this newfound communication revolution according to Aylin Zafar in her article published in TheAtlantic ,...
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...Facebook english reae RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT THE STUNNING IMPACT OF FACEBOOK IN TODAYS SOCIAL ORDER INTRODUVTION: * ATTENTION GETTER: Did you know, the utilization of Facebook can make you feel terrible about yourself? * THESES: Sure, Facebook can make you feel like you have got all the friends in the world, but it also makes you feel lonely and left out, hinders your privacy, and in more regrettable case, can even lead to cyber bullying Body: * Facebook gives you a false sense of connection. 1. Not all the friends on your list are real. 2. Can lead to comparisons between your friends. You always feel the other person is more rich, has more friends and is way happier. * Privacy issues are one of the major issues faced by facebook users 1. Facebook encourages people to be more public about their personal lives 2. When inappropriate images are uploaded, they can affect your career when a background check is done. * Facebook and teenage cyberbullying 1. Fake profiles are created and abusive texts are sent and posted. 2. According to 2010 CBC news report around 42% of teenagers using facebook have been victims. CONCLUSION: * Memorable statement: Technology is clearly advancing humankind, curing sickness, taking us closer to space, improving our standards of living. – But it is also at the same time, deteriorating some aspects of all of this, and too much of reality is at risk of disappearing unless we can detach ourselves...
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...Name Instructor Course Date Social Media and the Internet: Does it Help or Hinder? Human beings demonstrate a desire to interact and share their experiences with others. With the development of social media and the Internet, such interactions are rapidly shifting. Evidently, it is rare to meet a person who does not use this form of media to communicate with others. It follows that social media and the Internet have become an integral component of the life of an ordinary human being (Tardanico). For instance, Facebook alone has more than 500 million users globally. For the other sites, such Twitter and Myspace, the cumulative number of interactions per minutes is millions. However, the only legitimate means of connection between people is through the authentic communication. Studies reveal that only 7% of communication is reliant on the verbal and written word. The other portion of it is dependent on nonverbal body language (Werbach). This paper evaluates various sources to determine how developments in social media and the Internet have increased the level of human interaction at the expense of effective face-to-face communication. One Saturday evening, Annalise exchanged instant messages with her son who is a college student. They ‘chatted’ quite a lot, Annalise asking about his well-being and her son replying with positive statements followed by emoticons: hearts and smiles. That same evening, her son was arrested for DUI. A few hours later, it was discovered...
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...race has fallen behind mentally because of this advancement? Technology and social media has ultimately altered our brains, making it easier to get distracted, which affects our relationships with others, communications and interpersonal skills, alongside worsening our multi-tasking ability. There is still time to fix this and save the younger generation and ourselves. Getting rid of technology is not the answer, but knowing our limits and remaining focus on a single task can allow us to stay a bit more humanized. Many of us have heard of social networking sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. These sites are great means of expressing yourself or to portray a type of image, but there is point where people online cross the line. Constantly putting personal business out there for others to know can create hostile environment and even an unsafe one. People create an illusion, where constantly checking our social networks for notifications that are not there, and people statuses in which I have already scrolled by twice already. In the article Is Facebook Making Us Lonely, Stephen Marche says, “What’s truly staggering about Facebook usage is not it’s volume – 750 million photographs uploaded over a single weekend - but the constancy of the performance it demands. More than half it’s users – and one of every thirteen people on Earth is a Facebook user – log on everyday. Among...
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...social networking applications exist in this world today with billions of active users from across the world. The applications in social media are undisputedly engrossing and engaging. With many riveting applications such as Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat that allow one to interact with other people from the virtual world, there is no doubt social media has the ability to give users their daily dose of entertainment without interacting with one another in the real world. Ideally, the existence and advent of social media should increase communication and engagement between families, friends and acquaintances. However, many cases have been reported that social media taken to the extreme could cause some personality disorders...
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...In the article “Introduction to The Tyranny of E-mail” by John Freeman tells readers about how the use of technology, such as e-mails, has taken over our everyday lives. One quote from this article that stands out to me is “We have all the technology in the world, yet we’ve never felt more alone. I strongly agree with this statement. The advancements we have made in the last few decades are unbelievable. One would think that humans should be better off than we ever have. The truth is that technology forces us to isolate ourselves. We choose to sit at home alone instead of going out with our friends or spending time with our family. Without social interaction, life can become...
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...A ghniadi - XI C (Analytical Exposition Paper) Do Social Networking Websites Dehumanize Us? In a seminal paper published in 2007, social media researchers Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Mass., and Nicole B. Ellison of Michigan State University o er a useful three-part de nition of social networking sites: 1) Provide a forum where users can construct a public or semipublic pro le 2) Create a list of other users with whom they share a connection 3) View and move around their list of connection and those made by others. In a nutshell, a social networking website alter the uses of the internet. From a tool used in anonymity to a medium which touches questions about human nature and identity. And those questions, for some people, are the culprit that blurred the line between humanity-inhumanity of people, since people nowadays prefer to send e-mail to their parents instead of going several miles just to say “Hello!”. But did it really give us disadvantages upon our humanity? Will it dehumanize us? Or it already did? One thing for sure, as social networking proliferate, they are changing the way people think about communicating, and speci cally, internet. What does it mean to be human? In the rst place, it’s going to be so complex to correlate the word “dehumanize” (and as far as I know, only Keira Knightley and that Archbishop of Westminster who coined the term) and “social networking”. What are the variables? How can we measure how...
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... Professor DiMeo English DL1 28 April 2013 The World of Digital Friendship Once upon a time friendships were sacred and relationships cherished, but in today’s age of social media the interpersonal relationship landscape has changed completely. Stories of friendship have evolved over millennia of generations and have crossed all cultural divides. In days of old a friend was not only someone that could be relied on in times of need but one who truly cared about you. In late October of 2003 all this would change. The definition of friend would become very different from what it had been known to mean for centuries. When Facebook was founded and social networks were born people began leading social lives via their computers, and this would prove to be the beginning of the end of true friendships. Before we get into Facebook we must get a better definition of what a friend is. Aristotle said that there are three types of friends. The first is a friend for utility, whether a classmate or a neighbor this is a person that can help with class work or babysitting and therefore one is friendly with them. Sadly in the case of wealth, like bees attracted to honey money can bring many utility friends that are only in the friendship for their benefit, hoping somehow to get a slice of the pie. The second is a friendship for pleasure. When two people have similar likes and hobbies instinctively they develop a friendship based on enjoyment of spending time together. Finally...
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...Alright.” When regulators at the Federal Trade Commission take steps within the coming weeks to strengthen the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, they could well be acting with Vicki Turner in mind. Along with raising her three kids, ages 16, 13, and 7, and working a job with handicapped children and adults, the 43-year-old resident of Fullerton, Calif., also spends a big part of her life monitoring her oldest kids' online activities: steering them away from inappropriate content, preventing them from uploading photos of themselves onto commercial sites that invite them to do so, and occasionally making them unfriend a person on Facebook whom Turner considers undesirable. When told about Mark Zuckerberg's declared ambition to open Facebook to children under the age of 13, she sighs. "He just cares about what will profit him," she says. In fact, Facebook, which hit a billion users last week, has sent a 20-page letter to the FTC imploring the agency to reconsider its planned revision of the 1998 act, which would prohibit the collection of information from children online, a lucrative practice that the social-networking behemoth clearly would not like to give up. Yet the FTC, though sharply criticized by an advertising industry unhappy with the proposed changes, says that current laws meant to shield children on the Internet have fallen way behind advancing technology. Entities, ranging from large corporations to obscure apps to roving data collectors, gather up children's...
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...January 30, 2009 The End of Solitude By William Deresiewicz What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider — the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone. Though I shouldn't say taking away. We are doing this to ourselves; we are discarding these riches as fast as we can. I was told by one of her older relatives that a teenager I know had sent 3,000 text messages one recent month. That's 100 a day, or about one every 10 waking minutes, morning...
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