Facebook/Coffee

“Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”

“Which brings us to a more fundamental question: Does the Internet make people lonely, or are lonely people more attracted to the Internet?”

This sentence definitely stuck out to me the most from the entire article.  After reading the article I believe that this is a very good and relevant question that might have multiple answers.  If someone is already lonely, lacking friends and certain social skills they might very well be drawn towards the internet.  But also if there is a person who has never used the internet and they are introduced to it and all of its features, they might be compelled to use it more and more rather than go on with their normal previous lifestyle. 

“Economic Citizenship and the Rhetoric of Gourmet Coffee”

“Consumers are encouraged not to think of the people who plant, harvest, and transport, coffee but instead to see only the performing baristas who take the center stage, enacting the service of making coffee.”

The quote here seemed significant because it somewhat explains how us, mostly Americans, view items that we purchase.  In the example involving Starbucks, we just see an employee dancing around behind the cash register making our coffee.  What we seem to forget is that there is hard physical labor done by several others just to get that coffee to the store.  Instead of realizing what it really takes to make that one cup of coffee, we would rather just pay for it and walk right out.