During the 1970’s and 1980’s you could send children out to play in their neighborhoods and not have to worry but now it is unthinkable for a child to go outside and run around their neighborhood or go to the park by themselves without a cell phone. We are being isolated by the fear of not being in contact with someone or not being able to get in contact with someone. Mostly everyone today owns a cellphone and can be in contact with another person in minutes, children even have cellphones. This fear has created a society of not being able to be alone and to also have a fear of loneliness. This type of society gave way to suburbanization which is what we are living in today. Suburbanization is “eliminating the stimulation as well as the sociability of urban or traditional village life, exacerbated the tendency to both” (Deresiewicz 5). Many people do not know who their neighbors are because they have plenty of other people to contact if there is an emergency. Friendship is slipping away from us, we do not understand the difference between having five hundred friends on Facebook and having a few close friends that we trust. The web has created the emotion of loneliness because even though someone may have hundreds of followers or Facebook friends, does not mean that they have many friends in the real world. People get caught up in creating the glamorous world they want to live in online that they do not spend
During the 1970’s and 1980’s you could send children out to play in their neighborhoods and not have to worry but now it is unthinkable for a child to go outside and run around their neighborhood or go to the park by themselves without a cell phone. We are being isolated by the fear of not being in contact with someone or not being able to get in contact with someone. Mostly everyone today owns a cellphone and can be in contact with another person in minutes, children even have cellphones. This fear has created a society of not being able to be alone and to also have a fear of loneliness. This type of society gave way to suburbanization which is what we are living in today. Suburbanization is “eliminating the stimulation as well as the sociability of urban or traditional village life, exacerbated the tendency to both” (Deresiewicz 5). Many people do not know who their neighbors are because they have plenty of other people to contact if there is an emergency. Friendship is slipping away from us, we do not understand the difference between having five hundred friends on Facebook and having a few close friends that we trust. The web has created the emotion of loneliness because even though someone may have hundreds of followers or Facebook friends, does not mean that they have many friends in the real world. People get caught up in creating the glamorous world they want to live in online that they do not spend