In “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” Marche States The Following

At first, I agreed with Stephen Marche, author of “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”, but after doing some of my own research I would like to retract my original position. We cannot blame technology for our own human condition. However Stephen Marche begs to differ. “At the forefront of all this unexpectedly lonely interactivity is Facebook, with 845 million users and $3.7 billion in revenue last year” (Marche). Stephen Marche believes Facebook is making us lonely because it is changing the dynamics

In a specific sentence Marche expresses a major negative impact that social media has on people by stating, “Our omnipresent new technologies lure us toward increasing superficial connections at exactly the same moment that they make avoiding the mess of human interaction easy” (Marche).What this suggest is that as a society, people are turning to social media for the fact that having to deal with others

• How can social media cause us to alter our reality online to get more “likes”? • How can a lack of social queues lead us to abandon our common sense when we post without a fear of the consequences? 2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing