Is Facebook Making Us Lonely

In his article, Ludden argues that whether or not social media affects your loneliness depends on what you do with it. He examines studies that present that those who use social media to connect with friends who are farther from them experience more loneliness than those who use it to connect with friends who are closer to them. He also claims that the use of social media to examine other people’s activities and lives without participating can increase loneliness and socially awkwardness in the real world, especially when this is being done to compare one's own life to others. Overall, the key to his argument is that the effect of social media on one’s loneliness depends on their social skills and what they are using it for. One of the first rhetorical appeals brought out in Ludden’s article is the appeal to pathos.

Facebook Friendonomics by Scott Brown Scott Brown, a writing critique, in his essay “Facebook Friendonomics” implies that social media, such as Facebook, has changed the definition of friendships. He refers how friendships online are distant and lacks the value of a physical friendship. His purpose is to show how Facebook makes friendships expandable and weakens real-life connections. He uses diction to negative connotation to convince his audience that online friends lack the personal growth compare to proper friendship. Brown’s argument effectively motivates people to put aside their devices, met face-to-face, and fulfill the values of a proper friendship.

In Kate Dailey 's article, “Friends with Benefits: Do Facebook Friends Provide the Same Support as Those in Real Life?” Dailey compares real life friends to friends who people acquire on social media. She makes the argument that social media serves as an amplification, but not an alternative, to a “real life” social life. Dailey took this topic into her own hands by conducting polls on her personal Facebook page to get the opinions of her so-called friends on whether Facebook friends show the same support as real life friends. From these polls, Dailey came to the conclusion that though Facebook did not create friends, it provided people with virtual acquaintances.

He talks about how social media is tied around weak ties, and how Twitter and Facebook is a good way to have many friends or stay in touch with people you usually wouldn’t. But he says that if can be a wonderful thing. “There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances--not our friends-- are our greatest source of new ideas and information” (407). Here he is trying to show the good in having loads of internet friends, but explain of that can be a bad thing.

This demonstrate how globally connected I can be to almost 1/7 of human population. Moreover, I am shared with my friend’s experiences through pictures or status updates on my daily news feedback. Even more conveniently, facebook allows me to send message to my friends or strangers through the internet space. The internet has given the power to facebook to integrate myself in a space with billion of

In her document “ The Fakebook Generation,” later to be published in the New York Times on October 6, 2007, Alice Mathias enters the topic of the most used social networking service worldwide, Facebook. Mathias debates on Facebook’s claim of being a forum for “genuine personal and professional connections” and tries to influence her readers to ask themselves if the website really promotes human relationships. The author illustrates in her document the power and impact Facebook had on the population by convincing to be “a place of human connectivity,” but states her idea of Facebook missing its real reason of enriching human connectivity. Mathias goes on how Facebook became more as an “online community theater” than a functional service tool. She provided examples like people who announce relationships with Chinese food in their status in order to make others laugh instead of providing useful updates.

Thousands of people are connected to one another simultaneously varying from different time zones and diverse places on earth. With social media, one is capable of traveling the world when viewing images and videos though the mind is still in the same “placeless” place which means that the brain goes into that place while staring at the screen for too long, the mind enters a state where it stops thinking, hence the normal social behavior declines. Negative Effects of Technology… (2015) shows how the old fashioned café has eliminated loneliness through time by gathering people in one place, as opposed to sitting at a screen for too long that causes a social cut off. When linked to a person on social media you can love them for what they say or for their sense of humor however when it comes to physical contact, which is absent online, can you bare their real personality? It can be significantly different from what you thought it was.

Rheingold 1993 defined online communities as: …social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace. Keseier et al. (1984) noted possibilities of developing computer networks into social support networks. Adolescents are the age group disproportionately affected by this new technology (Pew Internet and American Life Project 2009).

Information and communication technology has seen lot of changes and advancements since the year 2000, key among them being the development of social media as a social influencer. It has become prominent parts of life for many young people today. We are all aware that social media has had a tremendous impact on our culture, in business, on the world-at-large and social media websites are some of the most popular haunts on the internet. Most people engage with social media without stopping to think what the effects are on our lives, whether positive or negative. Are we as society becoming more concerned with Facebook “friends” than we are with the people we interact with face-to-face in our daily lives?

Facebook is one of the most currently relevant and widespread platforms for social networking. Facebook is a social media device which allows its users to connect with friends, family, coworkers, and the entire public. It is a media platform that allows people to easily share news, images and posts to all their “friends”. There is an option for people who become your fans to be frequently reminded of your presence by status updates, news, and other interactions. Jian Ghomeshi the former CBC host for the radio show called the Q used Facebook as a media platform to express his feelings to his friends, family and his fans!

When I first started my use of Facebook, all I cared about was how many friends I could add. The more I friends I added, the cooler it made me seem. However over the years I realized that having friends is not about quantity, but rather quality. Social media has made me far more cynical to me peers after reading numerous ridiculous statuses to outlandishly prejudice statements time and

Imagine that 20 years ago the only way to stay in touch with a person was to mail a letter. In a modern world with the invention of social media, people can converse with someone using the internet and get a response within seconds. Although in the course of time all generations have started to take advantage of the novations that social media has brought about, teenagers and young adults are the most active users of these networks. According to numerous research studies in the area of online social networks, it has been shown that such sites are impacting the lives of the youth significantly. Understandably, there are a lot of different opinions about its positive and negative influence.

According to the statistic, 95 percent of adolescents(12-17) use the internet, and 81 percent of them use Social Network Service (or Social Network Site). 94 percent of adolescents who use SNS joined Facebook, which is the most universal social media site (Sterling). As the teenage SNS users are increasing continuously, not merely advantages that television news or journals are never able to have and that the Internet can only have like exchanging information in real time appear, but disadvantages like addiction or cyberbullying are on the rise. Although SNS has positive effects to adolescents such as communicating, getting information, and building relationship, Social Network Service exerts negative influences more than positive. Therefore, people should recognize the problems on SNS and find the solution.

Study Title The effect that Facebook has on Self-esteem among 3rd year psychology students: upward and downward social comparison Brief review of literature “Self-esteem is related to numerous emotional states. It has been linked to anxiety and depression in the clinical literature (Mineka, Watson & Clark, 1998), to pride and shame in the developmental literature (Tangney & Fischer, 1995), to happiness and contentment in personality psychology, and to anger and hostility in social psychology (Bushman & Baumeister, 1998).” According to Coopersmith (1967) “Self-esteem refers to a person’s positive or negative evaluation of the self, the extent to which an individual views the self as worthwhile and competent.” It serves various social and existential

People also stay connected and interact with one another, with their peers, people of similar interests, and even their family members. This helps strengthen their relationship even if they are busy with their daily routines. In addition, social media sites have become a platform for youth with similar interest or common discipline to get together, building connections and opportunities for their respective careers. Youth claims that social media not only makes their lives easier and efficient, it has become their lifestyle. While social media has seems to bring people together and help one another stay connected, it has created social isolation in regards to BBC News report.