{"id":14,"date":"2018-02-12T15:26:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/?p=14"},"modified":"2018-02-12T15:26:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:26:47","slug":"is-facebook-making-us-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/2018\/02\/12\/is-facebook-making-us-lonely\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #373737;\">Technology has become such an integral part of our everyday lives. Additionally, social media has taken that attachment to technology to the next level. With this increased attachment, it is argued that social media, specifically Facebook, is making users lonely. How? With the incessant need for likes and approval by subscribers and followers is taking over our feelings, and creating this sense of loneliness when our expectations are not met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #373737;\">The article \u201cFacebook making us lonely?\u201d by Stephen Marche talks about how the connection to social media is making our ability to connect to humans more difficult. This social media connection is making its users more introverted and isolated, because all the human contact they need is through their technology. However, Eric Kilienberg\u2019s \u201cFacebook Isn\u2019t Making Us Lonely\u201d contradicts Marche\u2019s article by explaining that there isn\u2019t evidence to support that people are becoming more lonely because of social media. Additionally, <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; background: white;\">\u201cThe Intimacy of Anonymity\u201d<\/span> suggests that users sharing too much of their personal life on Facebook makes if feel like a reality TV show. The search for approval and \u201clikes\u201d create the social media culture that is over-sharing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; background: white;\">Technology has proved to be an important part of our history\u2019s evolution, but social media is taking that evolution to a level that makes people think the users are lonely. Facebook is a good example of an outlet that allows people to share their personal lives to everyone that follows them. However, that ease has caused users to over share their information, and seek for approval through social media rather than in person. This concept is what makes people believe social media users are isolated from human contact, and are connected to technological devices that supply us with media connection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology has become such an integral part of our everyday lives. Additionally, social media has taken that attachment to technology to the next level. With this increased attachment, it is argued that social media, specifically Facebook, is making users lonely. How? With the incessant need for likes and approval by subscribers and followers is taking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/2018\/02\/12\/is-facebook-making-us-lonely\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/schultzhe21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}