These four articles all share Facebook and other social media as their main theme.\u00a0 In reading Facebook Making us Lonely, I was fascinated by the statistics.\u00a0 They stated that in 1950, American households with only one person were less than 10 percent.\u00a0 In 2010, that number increased to 27 percent.\u00a0 The article tells the reader this statistic to show how much more lonely we have become, but I do not necessarily think this statistic shows that.\u00a0 If we look at the average household from the 1950’s, we will probably find children, a husband who goes to work everyday, and a wife who stays home and takes care of the children while maintaining the house.\u00a0 It is difficult for me to believe that every woman was happy in this position.\u00a0 As time has progressed, I think more women have been able to free themselves from this unfulfilling position, resulting in a larger increase of the population living by themselves.\u00a0 Maybe they do still feel lonely because they do not have anyone to share their home with, but they probably felt the same or worse before.<\/p>\n
I was already skeptical of this first article (Facebook Making us Lonely) while reading it, and the article Facebook is not Making us Lonely seemed to back up some of my criticisms of the first article.\u00a0 In Facebook is not Making us Lonely, the author brings up a statistic mentioned in Facebook Making us Lonely.\u00a0 The statistic is as follows:\u00a0 “A 2010 AARP survey found that 35 percent of adults older than 45 were chronically lonely, as opposed to 20 percent of a similar group only a decade earlier.”\u00a0 However, in Facebook is not Making us Lonely, the author points out that the vast majority of avid Facebook users are younger generations.\u00a0 So while this statistic may be true, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Facebook is the reason for loneliness. \u00a0 If they wanted to prove that Facebook was causing loneliness, they should have turned to the generation of more frequent Facebook users.\u00a0 One of the other important refutations the article Facebook is not Making us Lonely against the article Facebook Making us Lonely is the argument about how neighbors never knock on each others doors anymore because now they call.\u00a0 Facebook is not Making us Lonely points out that this is false, and that neighbors will call, and then knock on each others doors.\u00a0 Based on my own experience, I find this to be completely true.\u00a0 We call our neighbors to see when\/if they are available to join us for lunch, visit with us, etc.\u00a0 and then we see them.<\/p>\n
In the article The Intimacy of Anonymity, I thought it was interesting to read about how our online posts differ when people either know or don’t know who we are.\u00a0 The article uses the Whisper and Secret apps to show that when people don’t know who we are, that is when we expose what we are actually feeling and we offer a more authentic version of ourselves.\u00a0 This is most likely because we will feel vulnerable if we exposed who we truly are.\u00a0 While expressing your feelings is great, I am not particularly a fan of anonymity.\u00a0 If you want to express yourself privately there are other ways of doing so, like in a journal.\u00a0 The reason I am against anonymity is because it does not hold people accountable for their racist, sexist, offensive behaviors.\u00a0 Since there is no way to trace it back, anonymity allows these negative behaviors to persist without ramifications.\u00a0 And, obviously, when you’re talking to anonymous people there is a greater chance you could be talking with people who go anonymous for unspeakable reasons.<\/p>\n
While reading One Name to Rule Them All:\u00a0 Facebook’s Identity Problem I was very confused as to why Facebook polices people’s names the way they do.\u00a0 I think that as long as somebody’s name does not include anything offensive, it should be all good to go.\u00a0 I do however wish that the article would have showed the names that were being policed so that way the reader can make a more accurate assessment about weather or not they agree with Facebooks policy which disapproves of their names.\u00a0 Facebooks “Real Name Policy” is said to protect its users against harassment, trolling, racism, and misogyny, but I think that Facebook should be cracking down on other cases to prevent these issues, not forcing drag queens to change their names.\u00a0 The article mentions how for most people, filling out our names is such a basic task that requires little to no thought for most of us.\u00a0 Reading this made me realize how privileged I am that I have never had to deal with any injustices such as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These four articles all share Facebook and other social media as their main theme.\u00a0 In reading Facebook Making us Lonely, I was fascinated by the statistics.\u00a0 They stated that in 1950, American households with only one person were less than 10 percent.\u00a0 In 2010, that number increased to 27 percent.\u00a0 The article tells the reader … <\/p>\n