Siwen Liu
Professor Cottrell
UCWR 110
15 September 2015
(Type of paper: Optional) Final Summary Essays
Sentence:
The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever.
Paragraph:
In Stephen Marche’s article, Facebook is a reason people are becoming move lonely and standard. The relationship between technology and loneliness is strong. According to the article people who spend their time on devices and social network sights are finding themselves lacking in the ability to communicate in person. One effect that is brought up throughout the article is loneliness, in which is made the more often one drowns themselves in social media. Facebook in particular, is the target of this article, with its enormous audience, Facebook is the go-to website to see latest gossip, get in touch with everyone, and be in touch with everyone. The research put into the Lonely topic consists of psychologist’s opinions and real events. Unfortunately, technology gives one access to the internet, allowing one to be deeply drowned within the internet’s vast ocean of information. What's more, in the article, the author shows us many other researches and examples from professional study about technology including Facebook made people lonely to support his idea like Moria Burke, John Cacioppo and Sherry Turtle. So in other word, social media can cause a person to distance themselves from others because they are too busy using it, posting stuff and communicating with people, that they pay little attention to real friends. Page:
In Stephen Marche’s article, Facebook is a reason people are becoming move lonely and standard. The relationship between technology and loneliness is strong. According to the article people who spend their time on devices, and social network sights are finding themselves lacking in the ability to communicate in person.
One effect that is brought up throughout the article is loneliness, in which is made the more often one drowns themselves in social media. Facebook, in particular, is the target of this article, with its enormous audience, Facebook is the go-to website to see the latest gossip, get in touch with everyone, and be in touch with everyone. So a lot of people give up face-to -face to talk with each other instead using the Facebook or any other technology. The research put into the lonely topic consists of psychologist’s opinions and real events. For example, the books Sherry Turkle wrote like “Life on the screen” and “Alone together” can see how serious the impact is.
Another effect is loneliness is not a matter of external conditions but rather more of a psychological state, which can cause neuroticism, or anxiety with due time. For example, John Cacioppo, the director of the center for cognitive and social neuroscience at the University of Chicago, says the epidemic of loneliness is affecting the basic functions of human physiology. And in one experiment, Cacioppo confirmed “The greater the proportion of online interactions, the lonelier you are.”
What’s more, in the article, the author shows us many other researchers and examples from the professional study prove his topic “Is Facebook making us lonely." For example, Moira Burke concludes that the effect of Facebook depends on what people bring to it. And her research does not support the assertion that Facebook creates loneliness.
So in other words, social media can cause a person to distance themselves from others because they are too busy using it, posting stuff and communicating with people, that they pay little attention to real friends.