Sherman Alexie’s “The Facebook Sonnet” shows how social media creates fake connections and holds people back from growing. Early in the poem, Alexie writes, “Let’s sign up, sign in, and confess / Here at the altar of loneliness,” using religious imagery to show how people treat Facebook like a place of worship. This line suggests that users turn to social media not for a real connection, but because they feel lonely and want attention or validation. Later, Alexie says, “Let’s exhume, resume, and extend / Childhood,” which implies that people use Facebook to dig up the past and live in…