“The Great Forgetting” by Nicholas Carr and “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche tell stories of how technology can be great but there are some under lying aspects which can make it detrimental. Carr writes about how technology can cause some catastrophic events if it malfunctions and our reliance on it has made us observers instead of participants which is causing a decline in our ability to perform tasks. Marche talks about the benefits and drawbacks of using Facebook. He suggests that social media has potential flaws by affecting some people’s physical and psychological wellbeing, but does also have some positive aspects. In “The Great Forgetting” by Nicholas Carr, he elaborates on how technology can affect humans directly
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He describes how Facebook can contribute to loneliness because users can just comment or “like” on someone’s page and this reduces the amount of face to face communication that people have now. Younger generations are becoming socially inept because they just use Facebook instead of meeting friends and family in person. Marche says that Facebook has an average of 2.7 billion “likes” and comments every day in the last three months of 2011. Also, Facebook can increase family loneliness because with Facebook’s ability to update you on or keep you in contact with so many people, it takes away time you can spend with your family around you. Furthermore, lonely people are more inclined to spend time on Facebook because they would look through other people’s walls instead of chatting with them. As a result, they become aware of other people’s activities that they wish they did or the amount of friend’s that others have that they wish they had. This can make you scrutinize your own life and make you depressed. As a result, you question what you should put on your wall, so you don’t look bad in comparison to your friends. Moira Burke was a graduate student at the Human-Computing Institute at Carnegie Mellon and she ran a study of 1,200 Facebook users and found out that you get out of Facebook what you put into it. Nevertheless, people who are lonely are lonely away from Facebook, too. So, the popular kids are popular, and the lonely kids keep to themselves regardless of their Facebook usage. The draw of Facebook is that you can keep in touch with people very easily. Especially, if your friends live a long distance from
He describes how Facebook can contribute to loneliness because users can just comment or “like” on someone’s page and this reduces the amount of face to face communication that people have now. Younger generations are becoming socially inept because they just use Facebook instead of meeting friends and family in person. Marche says that Facebook has an average of 2.7 billion “likes” and comments every day in the last three months of 2011. Also, Facebook can increase family loneliness because with Facebook’s ability to update you on or keep you in contact with so many people, it takes away time you can spend with your family around you. Furthermore, lonely people are more inclined to spend time on Facebook because they would look through other people’s walls instead of chatting with them. As a result, they become aware of other people’s activities that they wish they did or the amount of friend’s that others have that they wish they had. This can make you scrutinize your own life and make you depressed. As a result, you question what you should put on your wall, so you don’t look bad in comparison to your friends. Moira Burke was a graduate student at the Human-Computing Institute at Carnegie Mellon and she ran a study of 1,200 Facebook users and found out that you get out of Facebook what you put into it. Nevertheless, people who are lonely are lonely away from Facebook, too. So, the popular kids are popular, and the lonely kids keep to themselves regardless of their Facebook usage. The draw of Facebook is that you can keep in touch with people very easily. Especially, if your friends live a long distance from