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Read Angwin’s “Why I’m Unfriending You on Facebook” and Foer’s “How Not to Be Alone.” Both discuss the effects of technology on interpersonal relationships, togetherness, empathy, and self-identity. Both are also, at heart, causal analysis essays as they posit technology as having an immediate and indelible effect on all of these areas of human experience. Your challenge this week is to read the articles, determine the thesis for both articles, identify two causes that both author’s state in common to support their claims, and two causes that are unique to either article. Your initial post should be approximately 300 words
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Angwin’s Why I’m Unfriending You on Facebook and Foer’s How Not to Be Alone are interesting reads
to say the least, they made me question whether something that is considered a staple in most teen’s
life is potentially the most dangerous habit of all. The former’s thesis is that Facebook no longer
sustains the level of privacy that can be expected from someone who joined in the early days and that
as a journalist who needs to shield her sources from public enquiry it is no longer the haven it once
was. Whilst the latter states with the advances in technology making our lives easier, we are becoming
increasingly distracted and therefore less willing and p...
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