In “The Facebook Sonnet”, the author uses tone to demonstrate how technology is modifying the way we interact with others. At the start, it begins with the word “welcome”, which is a word with overall positive connotations associated with it. However, this positive tone soon switches to more of a sarcastic and hopeless tone, as seen in the last line “here at the altar of loneliness”. The author uses a word that is inviting at the beginning, and closes off making a point of how lonely it really feels to constantly live in a world revolving around technology, which is more negative. This…