This week we read two texts on theory. I felt that it was fun to read the text and finally we read something that I might find useful in the future. The first two weeks have been more difficult to see the purpose of the assignments compared to this week.

I read the paper "The Benefits of Facebook " Friends: "Social Capital and College students' Use of Online Social Network Sites ." I found the paper interesting and after reading it, I decided that the theory was analysis. During the seminar, I got this confirmed when a few other students had read the same paper and interpreted it the same way, and decided at the same theory out of Gregor's five theory types.

At the seminar on Monday discussed the various journals we have chosen and our various papers in small groups. Later we presented for the other groups what the text was about and various limitations in the texts.

We chose an interesting text that was about how social media makes people more or less alone. The text had five parameters recorded in the assessment, but our discussion focused on how to measure something as abstract as loneliness. Is loneliness about how many hours a day you are alone, or how many hours you feel alone, or something else? Stefan then mentioned that the perceived is not the same as reality. This I thought was an interesting discussion since I think it is almost impossible to measure emotions as loneliness. All people have a variety of needs so how can you put a measure on that feeling? We also talked about prediction and explanation that Gregor wrote about. The writers of our chosen paper came to some conclusions, but they could not explain them. One conclusion was that men get more lonely from using social media than women, but why was never answered, which left me thinking; how interesting is something we cannot explain it?