Facebook Making Us Lonely Summary

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In this paper, I will be discussing a time before social media, what social media has done to the world and explore some solutions to the problems that social media has created. For those who don't know what social media is they are forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content which was brought to the world in 1997 and ever since people have become more and more obsessed will how many others like them. Although many would disagree that social media is harming our minds, it is time before all of these sites where so much better because people had true time to talk to one another, but as of …show more content…

Unlike now she speaks about the past where people didn't just ask how you were doing just so they could tell you how they are because they don't care about what you have to say. Although the time before social media was great we live in the era of social media and, thanks to is people think that face-to-face conversation is dead because they think it is better to talk to people farther away rather than people that live next door and keeps people from learning real social skills. In ¨Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?¨ the author speaks to the main reason for social media when he writes, ¨Today, the one common feature in American secular culture is its celebration of the self that breaks away from the constrictions of the family and the state, and, in its greatest expressions, from all limits entirely.¨ (Marche)The main reason social media is the killer of face-to-face communication is that the whole point of social media is for people to tell you what they are doing who they are doing it with and when they did it and this is bad because that leads people to think that the world revolves around

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