Joseph Christopher
ENGL 1302
3T28
Technology:The Downfall or the uprising? Different technologies have been developed throughout the passage of time, they have almost always provided some kind of large benefit for the user, but often times these kind of things come with their own downside, and in the articles "A Death on Facebook: Intimacy and Loss in the Age of Social Media" by Kate Bolick and "Death: The End We All Have to Face(book) by Christine Martorana they explain 2 different situations and ways technology has affected us in recent years and them main points in which the issues reside in today's intricate systems inner workings of the average day to day.
In The article Death: The End We All Have to Face, the author, Christine Martorana,
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Throughout the article she explains her feelings and her problems she is faced with through her story leading up to S’s Death in the end and how it affected her.. Even though she never truly knew her and met her once or twice face to face she felt real emotions as if they had been close friends. She even states in her own words after reading about S’s relation ship online “When had i become such a voyeur?” (Bolick 1) It is shown throughout the essay that Facebook is altering how one feels emotions and relates to others. The problem with this is it disconnects and almost downplays the importance of face to face relations when you can almost feel the same thing online and without ever interacting with the other party. When reading the article the examples are given over and over again on how she feels and relates to the news related to her as if it was herself. This emotion that she feels is even stated by herself later in the paper on page 2 that: “More in fact: her news thrummed inside my chest as if it were my own” She ends her paper by trying to understand was how was she crying for someone she hardly knew, and what was she crying for, S or her story she experienced throughout the time she viewed her life from the outside through the medium of