The viewpoint blog post “The Epidemic of Facelessness” by Stephen Marche discusses the issues behind anonymity throughout cyberspace and how the issues can possibly be resolved for those involved with social media. Marche discusses the phenomena of “facelessness” and how it removes users from their identity, thus creating an “inability to recognize shared humanity with another.” Facial expression allows mirror neurons to fire, giving aid to the empathy in human beings. Although, media has created ways to imitate facial expressions for emotional context with emojis, but Marche claims they’ve done little to no help or replicate the necessary face-to-face context in order to get true meaning from a conversation. Without this expression, human
