Summary Of Is Facebook Making Us Lonely

In This essay, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” by Stephen Marche he argues that overusing Facebook can make us become lonely; however, he overlooks the advantages that social can contribute to us. Social media has become one of the easiest and fastest way to communicate with people all around the world. It helps us stay connected with family members, and friends around the world. Facebook is one of the main social media that provides all of this to us. Yet, some people can over use the advantages that Facebook gives us. Stephen Marche talks about how Facebook doesn’t necessarily makes us lonely, it all depends on how much time we decide to spend on social media.

In “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” by Stephen Marche, he argues that we as a society are living in isolation because we are becoming more detached from one another. Using

She used to be a playboy playmate, which is where she gained many followers in Facebook. She detached herself from everyone in her real life because she was more focused on her online persona rather than her day to day life interactions. She then died of a heart attack in her house, and was found until a year later because of the fact that she did not have any real friends in her life that would notice that something was wrong with her. She was only found because a neighbor notice cobwebs and yellowing on her mail. I can totally agree with him when using this examples, because sometimes we do tend to focus so much more on our social media “Image” that we forget how important it is to have real friends, people who you can relate to when having bad times. This example shows how one can have a really negative outcome by just focusing so much on Facebook and isolating yourself from your real life. Social media shouldn’t be the only world you surround yourself with, you should also have people outside your social media for the health of your