The article written by Betsy Morais begins by talking about two men, Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg, who decided to terminate their Facebook accounts. They realized how destructive it was in so many different aspects of life, and went so far as to make a seventeen-minute long short film that illustrates this situation. The idea is to show how websites like Facebook become addictive stalking devices, how the internet is "both entrancing and poisonous". “People are so isolated when they’re at a computer,” Woodman adds. “There are all these things that are becoming the norm, like scrolling through someone’s pictures, or creeping. But no one has taken off the veil, to be like, ‘What does this mean? Why are we doing that?’ ” The article paints a scary portrait of what this generation has become thanks to the Internet.
The article is informative, though a tad unclear. There are many facts presented, but the overall picture is somewhat dim. The article doesn't seem to be written for all audiences; teens who fall into the facebook-addicted category that the article describes might not fully understand it. The author has a good vocabulary, though, and the topic is interesting and relevant. The title catches the eye of anyone scrolling through the New Yorker website.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/how-a-relationship-dies-on-facebook.html
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