{"id":120,"date":"2012-04-16T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T00:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2012-04-16T17:41:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T00:41:35","slug":"is-facebook-making-us-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/is-facebook-making-us-lonely\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook making us lonely?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is possibly destined to become as oft cited as the earlier <i>Atlantic<\/i> article &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2008\/07\/is-google-making-us-stupid\/6868>Is Google Making Us Stupid?<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/05\/is-facebook-making-us-lonely\/8930>Is Facebook Marking Us Lonely?<\/a>&#8221; by Stephen Marche (<i>Atlantic<\/i>, May 2012)<\/p>\n<p>I think it isn&#8217;t a question of one solely causing the other. But both contribute to a worsening cycle. Lonely people seek connection on Facebook. And people who use Facebook (and other social networking sites) a lot have less time and less incentive to invest in activities that will develop face-to-face relationships. It doesn&#8217;t mean that people who connect more with online friends than in person <i>experience<\/i> loneliness. They might <i>feel<\/i> very connected. But as the illustration that began the article shows, they might be lacking in the kind of friends who would help when physical in-person help is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is possibly destined to become as oft cited as the earlier Atlantic article &#8220;Is Google Making Us Stupid?&#8220;: &#8220;Is Facebook Marking Us Lonely?&#8221; by Stephen Marche (Atlantic, May 2012) I think it isn&#8217;t a question of one solely causing the other. But both contribute to a worsening cycle. Lonely people seek connection on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}