Causes Of Social Media

The truth is if social media was never invented we still may have found other ways to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. As we spend less time focusing on what’s going on outside in the real world than we do scrolling down our Facebook feeds we separate ourselves. It’s become a part of our everyday routine and, most people check their Facebook before they even have breakfast in the morning. Social media definitely didn’t help, but it is not the sole cause of isolation but, how we use it. If we were to use it how it was intended by making new connections, we wouldn’t feel so separated from the rest of the world.

Social media, like Facebook and Twitter seems to be growing popular worldwide in the last few years. Have you found yourself or someone else in an awkward situation and instantly pull out your phone to scrawl through Facebook or Twitter just to keep from talking to someone in the elevator or doctor’s office? Is social media like Facebook and Twitter making us lonely human beings? One man, Stephen Marche, wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely,” published in May of 2012 issue in The Atlantic thinks that social media might play a role in it alongside with other things.

In Stephen Marche’s article, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” he begins by stating the assumption that there is research suggesting that we have not in any way been more detached from one another, or lonelier, and the cause may be social media. Marche makes a point early on in the article that Facebook is the forefront of most unexpectedly lonely interactivity. That during the crisis and intensity of human loneliness, Facebook showed an attractiveness of promising greater connection. The author then goes on to provide the reader’s with statistics, but no sources cited, of how in the past 60 years the percent of humans who were living alone has gone up nearly 17 percent. Giving a presumption that Facebook may be the cause. Trying to support

In “Social Media As a Community” by Keith Hampton, Mr. Hampton states “Neither living alone nor using social media is socially isolating. In 2011, I was lead author of an article in Information, Communication, & Society that found based on a representative survey of 2500 Americans, that regardless of whether the participants were married or single, those who used social media had more close confidants.”

Are people still feeling lonely even though they are connected online? Stephen Marche, in his article " Is Facebook Making Us Lonely ?", explains the correlation between using Facebook and loneliness. Facebook has been used worldwide for a long time and it has always been an interesting topic to debate on. Some people argue that Facebook is harmful by isolating people from others around, and that using Facebook might make people less satisfied, sadder and lonelier than ever before. Conversely, I and other people think this most popular social network is great, it makes the world more open and connected. Facebook is useful, it does not separate or make people lonely because Facebook is just a tool and everything depends on how it is used.

Twitter, 995 followers. Instagram, 974 followers. Facebook, 551 friends. Snapchat, 329 friends. What do these numbers mean? Popularity? Beauty? Intelligence? These numbers mean nothing. All these ‘followers’ and ‘friends’ I have really aren’t my friends, they are just people I met once or twice, someone I went to school with, or someone I don’t even know. So why do we sit on social media and scroll for hours at a time? Is it because were bored? Alone? I’m not saying that technology is evil, it has made amazing advances, and can keep us in contact with people or help us to meet new ones. Technology makes us alone because it interferes with our basic human needs such as interaction, affection and attention.

Social Networking in the 21st century is raising awareness and caused the society negatively when technologies came out. When a person gets home from school or work, the first thing the person did was logging in Facebook, Instagram, and other social network. Physical interactions compared to only talking behind a keyboard are much better ways to express ourselves. The article, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephan Marche, he explained how the social network could affect loneliness at times. Marche believes that the social network can benefit people for their isolation who had never use media network. He studied the technology that can isolate us from the real world. The technologies can affect many ways through peoples’ relationship in their families and friends. I disagree with Marche, because I believe people should limit on the technologies for their use knowledge and try to avoid being isolated.

In the first place, social media is a an extraordinary way to stay connect with friends, relatives, acquaintances, and significant other in reality this is not the case in real world, not electronically, but human contact world. According the article, “ Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche states how we as people have been dependent on the use of social media thus making us more lonely than before. As well we don 't know about people’s lives until posted on the social media one example, is the tragic death of Yvette Vickers who died in her home and was not found until months later due to the celebrity 's disconnection from the world. Marche states, “[Vickers] had long been a horror-movie icon, a symbol of Hollywood 's capacity to exploit our most basic fears in the silliest ways; now she was an icon of a new and different kind of horror: our growing fear of loneliness” (60). Marche states about our dependence on

Social networking is on the rise; Facebook users have gone from 1 million users in 2004 to 700 million users in 2011. This staggering rise in social networking has removed the real person-to-person atmosphere, to an isolated environment in conversing with peers. Hiding behind close doors being all alone texting, Facebook, Instagram or twitter is taking our communication with others to a very sterile and lonely place. Professor Sherry Turkle of MIT says, “ people are being detached from human like interactions, creating a feeling of loneliness.” (Huff, 2011)

The face of this century is wrapped around social media. Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook are the three most commonly used of social media websites. Mainly to share personal information or perhaps even view what one person is doing by simply uploading a video. There have been many scenarios and debates on whether social media is consuming our daily lives in a negative or positive way. Although the three of these apps are very popular, Twitter has been in the lead with their users by sharing over 500 million tweets per day. Even though those statistics may sound cool, Twitter has also been known to be the main cause of cyberbullying, relationship problems, and teen depression. Is it really that bad?

Social media is used on a daily basis to keep people connected from all over the world. Even though many people feel like they’re connected when they use too much social media, others feel like they’re socially isolated. Brian Primack is the director of the Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health at the University of Pittsburgh. Him and his colleagues surveyed 1,787 adults in America ranging from ages 19 to 32 and asked them about their usage of 11 social media platforms outside of work. They also asked the participants questions such as how often they felt left out. The results of the survey revealed that the users who spent the most time on social media- more than two hours a day- had twice the odds of perceived social isolation than those who said they spent a half hour per day or less on those sites. Users who visited social media platforms most frequently- 58 or more times per week- had more than three times the odds of perceived social isolation than those who visited fewer than nine times per week. The study also showed that out of all the social media platforms, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram were the ones mostly associated with social isolation (Hobson).

Many social media sites and apps are very destructive to people's life. No one might see how addicted to their phones they are, until they are not around any type of social media to interact with one another. Then they start to feel lonely and depression might go there way due to not being able to stay away from conversing with someone constantly. Social media has become an addiction to society and many do not want to accept the fact that they wander off in their social life and forget to do productive work, or actually converse with a person face to face. About four social medias have caused this addiction which are facebook , snapchat, instagram and twitter.

In the article “Alone Together,” Sherry Turkle states that with technological advancements people’s interactions with one another have been reflecting how connected they are with each other. While in the article “When My Kids Disconnect,” Susan Maushart states that with the absence of technology people tend to connect and still be happy. Finally in Stephen Marche in his article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely,” states that the more interaction done online makes people feel lonelier.

Social media is the biggest it’s been ever since it was invented, and it isn’t slowing down. Since January 2010, the number of U.S adults using social media rose from 43% to 69% in November 2016 (pewinternet.org). And as social media is accessed through technology, one might strongly agree with how technology doesn’t make us lonely. Social media, like Instagram, Facebook, and even texting helps us connect with others. They let people contact with one another, whether its through pictures or words. With all this information, it is hard for someone to argue with how social media might make someone lonely, as it simply does the opposite. In fact, 57% of teens make new friends through social media, not

In a general sense, social media has been accused by many as being a contributing factor to loneliness, isolation, and essentially social withdrawal (McGauran, 2016). Many studies explore these claims and conclude that how one uses social media determines its effect on their behaviour (McGauran, 2016). To explain, those who engage in relationships outside of the social media realm and therefore use this interface as a means of maintaining offline relationships were more content than those who use the interface passively, which reported more feelings of sadness and isolation (McGauran, 2016). To address a similar claim, it has been stated that societies utilize social media as to disengage from reality (McGauran,