CMN 210 Chapter 4: Readings: Week 4 - Is FB Making Us Lonelier?
7 Feb 2017
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An actress yvette vickers was found dead in her home alone and no one is sure when exactly she died. She was found by her fellow actress friend upstairs in her room next to a heater and computer that were still on. In the next two weeks there were many facebooks posts and tweets about her death and she became the center of a new horror - (cid:862)our growing fear of loneliness(cid:863) She has no close group of friends or family, no children. Although her connections had grown larger they also grew shallower. In our new digital age of online connectivity we all experience a sort of alienation; one in which we are lonelier and detached from one another. With 843 million users and revenue over 3. 7 bill in one year and is estimated to be worth almost 100 bill (more than some global coffee orgs)
