Is Facebook Making Us Lonely Summary

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Summary of the topic “Is Facebook making us lonely?”
So you signed up to facebook to get closer and connected to the people in your life? Well this interesting piece by Marche might make you want to change your mind. Ever heard of YVETTE VICKERS? Yes that same one your mind just sprung to, then playboy, playmate and B-movie star who died at her residence in Los Angeles for several months before her neighbor realized mails that have been in the mailbox for quite a while without been received and went to check on the movie star but to her shock she laid dead by the still running heater whiles the computer lights still remained on.
So this brings us back to the topic “Is Facebook making us lonely?” in the story of the famous actor, the author states that when she passed and her phone was checked by Savage they came to realize that Vickers was getting in touch with people but they weren’t immediate relatives or people within her neighborhood or vicinity but rather fans and admirers from a far. The internet was built to make our world a global village but …show more content…

For example we live in a world where neighbors nowadays seem to mind their business so much that having a conversation with the person who lives next door looks like intruding into someone’s privacy, thus most of us rely on social media sites likes Facebook to make friends that we can converse with hence why I don’t fully agree with “Facebook is making us lonely’. On another look at it we realize that these people we talk to on the internet are not real life companions, yes they may respond whenever we send a ‘hi’ with a smiley face but that is nowhere close to the physical presence of someone that doesn’t even talk to. Stats so that VICKERS death had over 16,000 posts on Facebook and almost 900 tweets yet only one person was able to get to her house when she lay mummified for

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