In the article that Franzen wrote I do agree with some of the things that he said, I do believe that social media causes a fake sense of reality. I don’t believe that it causes everyone to be egotistical or self-centered. I do agree with his like vs love concept because in the article he speaks about people trying to be likable because it creates this fake personality that’s “rewarding” for the person and I think that’s completely true when it comes to the internet. we see this happen with celebrities like robin Williams , he put on a fake smile during his whole career and unfortunately ended up taking his own life because in reality he wasn’t happy but I believe he felt pressured and felt like he had to pretend to be happy and likable for his fans. I also agree with Franzen’s views on love , when he says you can’t love every possible particle of someone but you can love that person’s real self and personality. Love is something that you can only experience in real life in my opinion and you’re actually forced to deal with your feelings as opposed to being on the internet and just being able to block someone or report something. My relationship with my phone does not concern me because me personally I don’t really have an internet persona , I don’t post on any of my social medias and I only use my phone to really contact my friends. Also technology is made to help society not hurt, but sometimes there are just some unexpected withdrawals. I believe the developers intentions were to always help connect us with each other , I do think them making apps addicting on purpose by collecting data on us is kind of scum baggy though because at that point they don’t really care about their users or their privacy , they just care the amount of users and how they can profit from them.
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