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Unit 2

Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.

Is it more important to be liked or loved? In my opinion, I think there’s a time and place for both. In the long term, it’s more important to be loved, and less to be liked. So in a sense, I agree with Franzen’s concept of being liked and being loved. However, I disagree on the “mechanics” of being liked and being loved. Franzen implies that one has to fake their personality in order to be liked by people and that facade is hard keep up for a long period of time. Once that facade breaks, you’ll find yourself as being someone you’re not. However, I think you can have yourself be liked while being yourself. I think he also sees liking as a very superficial, negative thing, which I also disagree with. I think liking something can be a genuine attraction to something that’s just a less strong emotion than love. A like can slowly crawl into a love and a passion for that specific thing as well.

Based on Franzen’s basis of being liked, social media would play a big factor in this. Nowadays, getting clout, otherwise known as fame, on social media is seen as a very important thing. So many young individuals strive to be the next new thing. In order to do this, they have to be “liked” by others. And to do this, fake personas will be put on in front of the face of their audiences. This type of like is the superficial kind of like Franzen basis his idea of likes on. I personally dislike this whole culture of social media clout and the heavy emphasis our youth places on it. And this ties in with technology/smartphones because as our youth grows to be more attached to technology/smartphones, the bigger of an emphasis social media will have in our lives.

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Liking is for Cowards. Go for what Hurts.”

The whole concept of like vs love about technology was a bit odd but Yes I agree with Jonathan Franzen main idea concept of like vs love as to me liking could be simply alternative of I like it but it’s not that nice or I like it but not enough to buy but loving there no but you don’t try to find something wrong that restricts you from getting ,buying or simply proceeding with it, also love it’s more about getting attached, there it’s something that made you love it compare to like which is more of a common thing to me has less meaning and I guess Jonathan was kinda implying the same thing but with technology in his own way

My relationship with my phone does concern me sometimes when I really think about it as I would definitely say I can’t be without my phone, what else would I do especially in this generation now everything revolves around this one technology I think it’s near impossible to not get attached to it. but  I love my phone and mainly I’m attached to the things it have inside like pictures memories, and the things it can do ,it would take me a bit of process to switch phones as I’m not the type person to often switch phones unless I see the benefit of it as in if the latest phone have something beneficial enough for me to change phones. Technology has been the main resource for everything from jobs to school to basic social life  revolves around technology specially smartphones and it definitely has caused a big changes in both good and bad way as a young adult I do think it’s important to do sometimes take time off the screens but with this current pandemic that has not been possible as it only increased my use of technology.

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Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.

Yes I do agree with Franzen’s concept of like versus love. In this modern era of technology we are so consumed by all these gadgets and become less interactive with people and our natural environment. No longer do we meet at a park bench to have a chat, we just get on our phones and chat or we do video calls. There has been so much change since the advancement of technology in how we relate to people.

Yes, I am definitely concerned about my relationship with my phone although it has decreased a lot since becoming a parent, it has defintely picked up again since the pandemic. Society today and especially since the pandemic, there has been an increased need to use smartphones/technology.  Now most kids are learning remotely using technology, more online shopping, more emails are being sent and received than ever before. We now do online banking, online ride share programs. Almost everything now is centered around technology.  Since the pandemic I have started using my laptop and smartphone a lot more. I order almost all of my grocery and clothing items online as I try to avoid going shopping, all my college classes are online, my parent-teacher conferences are on zoom rather than face-to-face, I order food via apps, schedule doctor’s appointment using an app and even recently had a virtual doctor’s visit. I am sometimes concerned that even after the pandemic, technology usage will not change so much and it is very worrisome.