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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? Angela Cvetanovska

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Page 1: Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Angela Cvetanovska

Page 2: Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

We are living in isolation

yet we have never been more accessible

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The more connected we become, the lonelier we are

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Lonely people may use social media to find social support

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Facebook receives 1 trillion page views in a month

Users generate an average of 2.7 billion “likes” and comments every day

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Lonely people spend more time on Facebook per day than non-lonely individuals

Lonely people are more likely to prefer the wall while extroverts tend to use chat and the wall

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Facebook is interfering with real friendships

distancing us from each other

making us lonelier

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35% of adults older than 45 are lonely…

…as opposed to 20% only a few years ago

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Loneliness and being alone

are not the same thing Photo By: Johnass , Creative Commons License (Flickr)

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We meet fewer people

We gather less

When we gather, our bonds are less meaningful

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Does the Internet make people lonely, or are lonely people more attracted to the Internet?

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People who experience loneliness on Facebook…

…are also lonely away from Facebook

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People whose friends write to them semi-publicly on Facebook experience less loneliness

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Two things can happen when people read their Facebook newsfeed

feel worse about themselves

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feel motivated

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Facebook is not the reason why we are lonely…

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…we are doing it to

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Facebook enables us to be social without the embarrassing imperfections of society

accidental revelations awkward pauses face-to-face contact

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We have the perfect result of a social machine

that simplifies status updates, pictures and your wall

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the chance to forget about ourselves

Facebook denies us

the chance to disconnect

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Social media

should not be treated as a cure for loneliness

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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/the-real-reason-facebook-makes-us-unhappy.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margiewarrell/social-media-lonely_b_4034744.html

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