Summary Of Is Facebook Making USupid By Libby Copeland

Libby Copeland on Slate’s article is asking a question “Is Facebook Making Us Sad?” In this article Copeland is providing her audience with relevant data about why in her opinion Facebook is making us sad and not happier in general. Copeland is trying to explain to us about the psychological side effects that social media not just Facebook has on people. With seeing our friends “perfect lives” we tend to have negative thoughts about our own lives and tend to see ourselves as the losers in life. Copeland explains her argument in an informative and persuasive tone, but more of a cause and effect style. By her word choice and the ways she defines sadness she makes it questionable on why this is her viewpoint on social media. In this article, Copeland’s main idea is just basically stating that Facebook is making people sad and lonely instead of making them happy. It explains how social media
By briefly starting off by saying “there are countless ways to make yourself feel lousy. Here’s one more” it arouses curiosity and makes the reader want to continue reading to find out what the author is talking about (Copeland, 2011). Copeland uses vivid words to make her point more realistic throughout the article. Her word choice as to why she thinks Facebook is putting us into competition with one another is absurd. The way she states that it is making us sadder every day than it is making us happy is questionable. It is questionable because many people may come to agree with her and others disagree. We are all humans and we have a tendency to think we are all not competitive, but in reality we are always competing with one another. She used words like “lonely, vulnerable and crummy” to describe how people feel about seeing others personal lives on Facebook. Copeland clearly uses strong words like these to show us that the cause of us seeing the things we see on Facebook is going to affect us in the long