Stephen Marche Is Facebook Making Us Lonely

Facebook Can Create Loneliness

In Marche’s anthology piece “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” he makes the relationship of loneliness and facebook accessible for any reader to understand. He does so by having a magazine format, which others can familiarize with. Marche had done a lot of research on multiple people, whom have different views on the topic of loneliness. Not only do these people have information on loneliness they also were able to include input on Facebook and if it is relevant to the idea of “Is Facebook making us lonely?”. Marche was able to provide a lot of information and background on his topic. Because his writing was easy to access an audience would not be hard to gather. The question that Marche has included in his

Marche provided research on the topic of loneliness, the research provided examples from John Cacioppo the director of Social Neuroscience at University of Chicago. In the research provided, it shows just how extreme loneliness is to human physiology. In this example which Marche found in Cacioppo’s research; “Cacioppo found higher levels of epinephrine, the stress hormone, in the morning urine of lonely people. Loneliness burrows deep: When we drew urine from our older adults and analyzed their white cells,” he writes, “we found that loneliness somehow penetrated the deepest recesses of the cell to alter the way genes were being expressed.” (Marche, 296) Marche researched more of Cacioppo’s work, he had found an experiment that had been conducted by Cacioppo which stated, “The greater the proportion of face-to-face interactions, the less lonely you are,” he says. “The greater the proportion of online interactions, the lonelier you are.”(Marche,297) In Marche original question Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? these examples he’d found through Cacioppo's work argued that loneliness effects human physiology and also can be used incorrectly. Which leaves us at; “Facebook is merely a tool, and it can be terrific if we use it properly.” (Marche,297) This arguments and question behind Is Facebook making us lonely? Is it can make you lonely, but

We are doing it to ourselves.”(Marche,298) This relates to the topic and ideas discussed earlier. It does well because Marche leaves an example of our choices we have in daily life of choosing from a machine or a real person. It’s easier to avoid human interaction with technology. Instead you could get groceries checked out by a person and talk and have them assist you with your groceries. Or you have the choice to bag and scan all the items yourself. Usually at stores if you choose this route most people aren’t going to be greeting you, and asking you very many questions. It’s viewed as a quicker, faster way, while avoiding long lines and slower cashiers. Marche shows some good view points which relate to his research that he had found on loneliness and facebook. Burke and Cacioppo's work and experience helped the author Marche answer the question the title provides “Is Facebook Making Us