{"id":15,"date":"2018-02-08T03:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/cunninghamnewcomm\/?p=15"},"modified":"2018-02-08T03:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T03:28:21","slug":"is-facebook-making-us-lonely-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/cunninghamnewcomm\/2018\/02\/08\/is-facebook-making-us-lonely-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook making us lonely or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the connectivity that we get from the internet, we can talk to pretty much anyone in the world, friends, family and even complete strangers. We get constant updates to what they\u2019re doing, multiply that by however many friends you have and you get blasted with a stream of information about their daily lives that is pretty much unparalleled to anything that we as a species have ever had before. People will share aspects of their life that you\u2019d never think to ask about. We get to see what people are doing every night, and what do we do when we see our friends having fun every night? We look at what we\u2019re doing, scrolling through Facebook alone in our room. <\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking from personal experience, Facebook doesn\u2019t make us feel lonely, but rather it\u2019s the vehicle of information that we compare our life too. In a sense it makes the lonely lonelier, we compare our life to the life that we think our friends live. No one unironically shares that they are home alone, instead they only ever share what they think would be interesting and what people want to see. We only ever see the good in people\u2019s lives, and when we only see the good in other people\u2019s life we start to think that they don\u2019t have any bad parts. It\u2019s this comparison that makes us feel like we truly are not as well off as our friends. <\/span><\/p>\n

We still have the access to our friends that we did before, better even, but seeing it through the wall that is Facebook makes it seem that we don\u2019t have that connection. I get the connection to my friends through social media, and I like that. However It still feels that every time I go on there all I see are my friends doing these awesome things, and I\u2019m just sitting at home checking Facebook. I guess one simple way to put it is when you\u2019re not actually producing content online, you\u2019re consuming it, and producers are busy producing to consume. This logic is slightly flawed but I feel that it\u2019s based in truth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the connectivity that we get from the internet, we can talk to pretty much anyone in the world, friends, family and even complete strangers. We get constant updates to what they\u2019re doing, multiply that by however many friends you have and you get blasted with a stream of information about their daily lives that … <\/p>\n

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