Reading Facebook: An Act of Isolation
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“They look like they’re having fun…”
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“That dress looks amazing on her…”
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“He’s won another award?”
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“Why doesn’t any of this happen to me?”
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Facebook makes us lonely. The juxtaposition of snippets of real life and perusal of a virtual one isolates us.
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People selectively tear pages
out of their lives and staple
them into their Facebook.
Collectively, it leaves the
viewer with a novel of life
highlights that disguise them
as day to day happenings.
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Additionally, this swarm of joy from our “friends” puts a constant pressure on
us to be incredibly happy, and to be living incredible, exciting, amazing lives.
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The maximum number of real relationships we can have at any time is around 150, and
yet people’s friends list regularly scale into the thousands.
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The act of using Facebook itself is an antisocial one.
We scroll through our newsfeeds alone, not in groups.
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We are seeing an active degradation of the quality of our relationships around us.
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Facebook is now becoming the tool the loneliest among us use to futilely reach
out for connection.
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An even worse byproduct is the lack of social education given to the new generations.
Growing up with Facebook initially isolates them and sets them up for a lifelong
attention addiction.
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It’s not simply perusal that is causing this singularity, people who regularly
post are found to be some of the most alone people.
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This plague of isolation is now
following us everywhere. In our
pockets, on our desks, the constant reminder
of what others are doing is always buzzing
in our ears.
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Not only does Facebook isolate us from others but it begins to isolate us from ourselves.
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We pick, choose, edit, and remix our online identities.
We morph them into whatever we think will be most accepted by our peers
rather than attempting to get to know ourselves and others better.
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Facebook even spreads this loneliness past the confines of its URL.
Those absent from Facebook are seen as beyond weird and begin
to be excluded virtually and in reality.
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“Staring at this screen is depressing me.”
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“I bet my friends want to go out.”
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“Click”