Is Facebook Making Us Lonely Summary

The article “Is Facebook Making us Lonely?” is about how various authors in different fields have done research on social media to determine if it is Facebook that make us lonely or whether people that use it is lonely in general. Finsterbusch (2016, p. 14) say that being lonely may not mean what the actual definition of it suggests. One, people can be lonely by not having many friends to interact with to tell them personal things. Two, people can become lonely by just reading about other people lives on Facebook and compare it to what is going on in their own life and become lonely. Data from research is observing how much technology is being used and by how much time one is spending on the social media to determine one’s loneliness. Also, the
64). Another advantage may be for therapy use to make friends and have brief conversations even though it is not like the real thing. This helps people with disorders to develop their social interactions with others so once they do go into an environment that they are not use to, they will be able to face situations differently and communicate. The tradeoffs for time using social media can vary from person to person depending if the person have a social or nonsocial personality Nelmapius & Boshoff (2016, p. 2).
In my opinion, the best way to use social media is to get on from time to time to interact with friends and family that you may not see daily. You may want to be on a social media listing your education and job qualifications to better your career. I think it is okay to use social media for communicating with others but you don’t have to put all of your business there for everyone in the world to read and like or