Critical Writting
The article "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely" was wrote by Stephen Marche and was published in the Atlantic. The article catch the eye of the reader because it can be relate to our daily life in this generation. Social network is a medium where everyone involve themselves in.
The article is about the loneliness of the people that communicates using the social network. The social network can broaden one's companionship, but it will increase one's loneliness. The article starts with the story of a well-known artiste that's found dead in her own apartment, because she's alone in the house. The social network isolates the connection between a real friendship and a friendship for the sake of connecting. According to a research, loneliness drastically increase in a decade and most of the people are not happy with their life because of loneliness. However, the usage of social network is depending on its user, it can be use for the good, or the bad. The social network proves that there's no way to make one happier, better life or even more liberated version of humanity, but sometimes, it has its own benefits.
The author believes that the loneliness is not something that the social network did, but rather it depends on one's themselves. The social network merely a medium to be connected to each other, but it relies on the user itself on how to use that technology on improving oneself. The author stated that one shouldn’t cast the blame of loneliness on the technology itself, because at some point, the technology does help in improving the lifestyle in this current modernise world. According the a study, 35 percent of adults older than 45 were chronically lonely, as opposed to 20 percent of a similar group only a decade earlier. Loneliness itself occurs even without the existence of social network. One’s will still feel the loneliness in oneself after some time.
In this article, the author biased towards the Facebook that does make us lonely. Even if there’s some
The article is about the loneliness of the people that communicates using the social network. The social network can broaden one's companionship, but it will increase one's loneliness. The article starts with the story of a well-known artiste that's found dead in her own apartment, because she's alone in the house. The social network isolates the connection between a real friendship and a friendship for the sake of connecting. According to a research, loneliness drastically increase in a decade and most of the people are not happy with their life because of loneliness. However, the usage of social network is depending on its user, it can be use for the good, or the bad. The social network proves that there's no way to make one happier, better life or even more liberated version of humanity, but sometimes, it has its own benefits.
The author believes that the loneliness is not something that the social network did, but rather it depends on one's themselves. The social network merely a medium to be connected to each other, but it relies on the user itself on how to use that technology on improving oneself. The author stated that one shouldn’t cast the blame of loneliness on the technology itself, because at some point, the technology does help in improving the lifestyle in this current modernise world. According the a study, 35 percent of adults older than 45 were chronically lonely, as opposed to 20 percent of a similar group only a decade earlier. Loneliness itself occurs even without the existence of social network. One’s will still feel the loneliness in oneself after some time.
In this article, the author biased towards the Facebook that does make us lonely. Even if there’s some