Question

How does the author of Selection 1 address the counterargument that social media helps people connect with each other?
A. The author provides statistics to support the idea that people do not primarily use social media to connect with one another.
B. The author makes suggestions for different ways that people can better blend in-person experiences with social media.
C. The author acknowledges that social media is a useful tool for helping people to connect with each other and cites different ways that it does this.
D. The author points out that if social media actually helped people connect with each other, there would be less loneliness, not more.

Answer 1

D. The author argues that if social media truly helped people connect, rates of loneliness wouldn’t be rising — using the rise in loneliness as a rebuttal to the “connects people” claim.