Before technology, face-to-face communication was a normal, everyday thing, and loneliness was a problem rarely talked about or experienced. People went through the day without checking their phone every five minutes or so to see if anyone liked the status they posted or felt alone when no one liked it. According to new studies, more and more people are experiencing feelings of loneliness and depression. However, more and more people are now using social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. If it is true that technology, especially sites like Facebook, can lead a person to feel alone, it is also true that it depends on how you use technology, whether to your advantage or as a sedative. When technology like the computer was invented it was designed more to make everyday tasks at work or home easier. The original inventors had no idea that one day there would be sites like Facebook with over a million users. Now, when people are at work most of the time, they don't pick up the phone to call another office or company. They sit at the computer and send an email ...