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In Sherman Alexie’s poem “The Facebook Sonnet” Alexie brings up a controversy, over all social media because it absorbs society into the depths of dark unknowns and prevents physical face to face communication. Even though Facebook allows people to stay up to date with friends, whether they be new or deep-rooted, the platform tears its users away from substantial social interaction with others. People can connect to the world by the click of the mouse and know what is going on at any given time. Social media requires ones everlasting attention, and the addiction is almost comparable to that of a cigarette, one cannot give it up and is always thinking about when one can check it again. People become so caught up in trying to perceive what everyone else is doing, they forget that they have a reality to live and fail to maintain real relationships. “The Facebook Sonnet” belittles the social media platform by emphasizing how obsessed society is with making themselves look perfect for the screen. One is either gripping to their past or obsessing over the present.

In Brave New World, developments in reproductive and psychological technology have redefined human nature. Bokanovskification, the drug Soma, and the Feelies have desensitized and changed the people’s values in this dystopia. Similar advances such as vitro fertilisation, surrogate motherhood, psychotropic drugs, and genetic engineering have also emerged in today’s society. Unlike the author of Sorry But Your Soul Just Die, I disagree that psychological drugs, stem cell research, and genetic engineering will send us into a dystopian society.

Facebook: the place where others share their experiences with friends and stay connected with the community. Wrong. Facebook: the place where friends brag about accomplishments and make others jealous, according to Meghan Daum. A columnist for the LA times, Daum writes about the true usefulness of Facebook and how it effects the social media user in her article, “I Like Me, I Really Like Me! Why Facebook Is All About Bragging”. In January of 2013, Daum describes Facebook as a “forum not for sharing but for bragging.” Daum states that Facebook has changed over the past year and receives a different connotation than it did before. Instead of being a fun place to share ideas, it has evolved into a place where everyone seemingly lives a utopian life. Daum achieves her purpose that Facebook is about bragging, not connecting, by employing methods that appeal to emotion.

In our day and age, an underlying suspicion is arising that Facebook and social media are bad for us. Tony Reinke, the senior writer for Desiring God, makes this clear in his article “Why We Should Escape Social Media”. Although Reinke agrees with the notion that social media is an inherent problem, he dismisses the resolution to completely quit social media as the wrong approach to the predicament. In Reinke’s mind, the main problem with social media is that it prevents us from attaining a true sense of solitude and silence. Reinke insists that a modern fear of silence exists: “In the silence, nothing about us remains hidden; everything bubbles again to the surface.

David Shields writes in Reality Hunger ‘We seek new means of creating the real’ (54). These new means of creating they appears to be linked to more conscious manipulation of the real and true, concepts relevant to social networking. The social networking affects the sense of reality, truth, identity and connects with others and shows that virtual relationships are based on blurring reality. Online, people have the opportunity to present an unreal image of themselves,

In her blog “ 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” (438) and tries to influence her readers to ask themselves if the website really promotes human relationships. Alice Mathias, a 2007 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire has wrote several more columns before, in which one of them was even awarded the Waterhouse Research Award.

In the article, “The Language of Fakebook,” Katie Roiphe uses a simulated Facebook page to probe how social media has decreased the value of communication. Roiphe begins by explaining how even though today’s teenagers act with the same high-pitched energy that most generations do, they use social media to express themselves with painstaking enhancement. While describing a novel written about a teen’s Facebook page, the author labels the experimental page as “fake and stilted and artificial, but only in the way all teenagers’ Facebook pages seem fake and stilted and artificial” (1). Roiphe demonstrates that the typical social media page lacks a certain quality of authenticity, as that fake Facebook page didn’t stick out from the rest. The author

Online social networks have become increasingly populated arenas for much of today’s population, especially with regards to high school and college students. Networks such as Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Vine, Twitter, etc., enable users to create an identity and present it to others by allowing them to share various aspects of their lives. Because individuals select their own content, the resulting representation can be either a true or imaginative reflection of the user. The attitudes, perspectives, behaviours and actions each individual chooses to present, shape their identity within the social media universe. Like most other web-based content, the pursuit of authenticity is assumed to be at the heart of these social media networks, playing an important role in our online interactions and our decisions about what web content we believe to be reliable. But, what about when the network structure allows users to create, post, and interact with anonymous identities? Anonymity eliminates the need decipher authenticity, however, it creates an issue by protecting the negative actions of empowered users.

Central to understanding technology and its intersection with the self is to ask the question, “Who is our online identity?” This question sparked a lot of discussions among me and my close friends who are more critical and pessimistic than me about the direction of the internet and social media. Indeed, with the boom of social media, more people than ever are exposing themselves to a greater audience. As a result, the concept of branding comes into place online, because it is the way we curate and craft our “identities” or who want to project online. At the same time, social media, while it is great to filter and connect with mass numbers of people, is lacking in real connections.

“Social media allows people to connect with each other to create and share information. It is people-powered communication, an authentic dialogue motivated by a basic human desire to share information” (CIPD, Social Media and Employee Voice Report 2013). ‘Click’ and my message is on its way to my friend’s Facebook inbox hundred of miles away. The astonishing speed of how quick we can communicate in today’s societies, all thanks to social media. The invention of Facebook simplified everything we know about communication. We can connect to people whenever and wherever, sharing information has never been more convenient and exciting. In Shane Hipps’ Article, “ Is Facebook Killing Our Souls?,” he has no intention to impede technological advancements, instead he wants users to understand technologies with insights. According to my research, although Hipps ' points has some merits, I disagree with him because he overgeneralized the impacts that Facebook and other social media has on users’ behaviors and identities.

“Aspects of the Self,” an excerpt from Life On the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle, a novel published in 1995, relates the idea that technology not only affects one’s self but also the culture that defines a society. With the increasing reliance on technology, Turkle states that people create different identities for the self on online platforms and in turn begin to identify with the machines, both personally and institutionally, which leads to a sort of social fragmentation.

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Living in the 21st century requires one to stay current with latest technological advancements. Ever since the development of social networking sites, people are now able to create a carefully-crafted identity for themselves. This has led psychologists to question how well these online personalities match the person in front of the computer. The innovative branch of media psychology looks into how social networking portrays individuals and initiates human interactions within a society.

The internet was invented roughly about 30 years ago by the World Wide Web. However, the first social media came out circa 20 years ago. The name of it was Six Degrees and it was created by Andrew Weinreich in the 1900’s. Six degrees users had the capabilities of uploading a profile, making friends, and sending messages with family and friends. Nevertheless on 2004, Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old who created the biggest social media that changed the world. Till this day, Facebook probably has up to 2 billion users and still counting. Nonetheless, most people seen on Facebook ranges from their teens to mid-40s, that have the capability of spreading information across the globe setting a chain reaction that created and spread fake news. Social medias’ fake news is spread by a heap of people that are easily convinced by false statements. According to Gretel, “In the midst of a nationwide debate over the proliferation of fake news on social media sites – and, as one 2015 study by the Media Insight Project shows, at a time when nearly 9 in 10 Millennials regularly get news from Facebook – the numbers, at first glance, may point to a bleak, uninformed future.” (n. pag.) Therefore, teens need to use social media to disintegrate some of the repercussions of real news.

More recently than in years past, digital technology and social media have grown to become a part of our everyday lives. The recent rise in those who own smartphones allows this everyday use of digital technology and social networking to be easier than ever before. At any time and any place, we have the ability to “socialize” with nearly anyone—even celebrities who have no idea most of us even exist. The continuous consumption of digital media has altered once personal face-to-face communication to just that, digital. More and more people seem to be living in what Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon call “The Cloud”. “The Cloud” is a seemingly alternate universe of which communication is altered from personal to digital. This universe has led to debates over whether or not these online communities are real or whether social media is actually social. Various digital media sources also encourage users to create individual identities, of which may or may not actually be real. It seems as though our reliance on digital technology and social media have allowed the determination of certain aspects of our lives. Although social media allows us to connect with nearly anyone at any time, Americans have taken advantage of its use, and their attention has been drawn away from real life interactions to digital ones. The ramifications of such influences reflect the hidden insecurities of Americans and, ironically, emphasize our inclination to boast about ourselves by allowing others to see the