2/21/13 Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/ 1/8 Print | Close • SUBSCRIBE • RENEW • GIVE A GIFT • DIGITAL EDITION Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? SOCIAL MEDIA—FROM FACEBOOK TO TWITTER—HAVE MADE US MORE DENSELY NETWORKED THAN EVER. YET FOR ALL THIS CONNECTIVITY‚ NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT WE HAVE NEVER BEEN LONELIER (OR MORE NARCISSISTIC)—AND THAT THIS LONELINESS IS MAKING US MENTALLY AND
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Rhetorical Response: “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” In Stephen Marche’s article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” (2013) Marche suggests that over time‚ loneliness is becoming more prominent in today’s society. Marche develops his claim by using many published research and scholarly articles. In order to make readers aware of this growing epidemic‚ Marche’s purpose is to show that by using Facebook people are becoming more isolated. The target audience for this article is Facebook users and people who
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media platforms. In the article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” the author argues that Facebook‚ one of the most popular forms of social media ever‚ is the reason why much of society is the way it is. For example‚ there used to be a point in time‚ where friends and families remembered each other’s birthdays and would mail you a birthday card‚ offer to take
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The article “Is Facebook Making us Lonely?” is about how various authors in different fields have done research on social media to determine if it is Facebook that make us lonely or whether people that use it is lonely in general. Finsterbusch (2016‚ p. 14) say that being lonely may not mean what the actual definition of it suggests. One‚ people can be lonely by not having many friends to interact with to tell them personal things. Two‚ people can become lonely by just reading about other people
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Eyes Opener in Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? On May 2012‚ The Atlantic distributed the article "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?" by Stephen Marche. In it‚ he investigates an intriguing level-headed discussion about online networking. His motivation in composing is to present an intriguing point about social networking‚ as he guarantees that Facebook‚ in particular‚ causing forlornness among clients. In reality‚ as we know it where online networking is vigorously common‚ Marche tries to convey to the
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Channing Thomas Tauva Hellie ENGL 101.05 30 October 2014 Our Generations Downfall In todays society it seems as if everybody is connected to social media somehow‚ especially us college students and young adults. It’s a way for us to connect with friends far away or even nearby. The thing is‚ social media is destroying young adults mentally and physically because it’s disconnecting them from the physical world. Texting‚ emailing‚ tweeting‚ and facebooking have become the preferred forms of communication
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Facebook and Loneliness With over 955 million active Facebook users worldwide‚ Facebook has definitely taken over the internet‚ and many people’s lives. With a simple click of a button many people can communicate with each other in the blink of an eye. Being able to add however many friends one may want‚ or talk to how ever many people one may want would make someone assume many people are less lonely today than they were 100 years ago. However‚ that is not the case. In recent years‚ the number
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Stephen Marche: is Facebook making us lonely? “Is Facebook making us lonely?” In an article for The Atlantic magazine‚ Stephen Marche explores a few articles‚ expert opinion and even quotes a scientist in his quest to answer this question. The article has an overall negative tone. Although Facebook is the most well-known and widely used social media site‚ is it really the culprit? I do not think so. If being lonely is something we can control‚ then we have to read this and reflect. That is‚ of
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In Stephen Marche’s article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely”‚ he starts with a very powerful story of Yvette Vickers who was found dead nearly a year after her actual death of being isolated for so long. Yvette Vickers was later known as a “horror-movie icon”‚ after news of her death had spread all across the internet via social media people view her as “a new and different kind of horror” because of this new kind of fear everyone is terrified in which Stephen Marche says is “our growing fear of loneliness”
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In Stephen Marche’s “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”‚ published in The Atlantic in May 2012‚ he brings up the topic of the growing loneliness in America and its possible connection with Facebook. Marche shows us the “accelerating contradiction” (62)‚ where the system that was designed to connect us‚ is actually causing us to become more lonely. Isolation‚ or solitude‚ does not mean that someone is unhappy. Loneliness‚ on the other hand‚ is what makes us miserable. However‚ both are on the rise.
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