In The Loneliness of the Interconnected by Charles Seife the author attempts to persuade his audience in the idea that the internet is changing our ability to create new opinions from new information. The author comes to one major conclusion, which he then goes on to explain in very fine and explicit detail using real life examples. The important conclusion that Seife writes is this, “We are becoming ever more resistant to the effects of uncomfortable facts--and ever more capable of treating them as noise.”(Readings for Writing at Virginia Tech, pg. 225). From here he goes into a process of writing that supports this statement. He starts with a small anecdote and uses it to build onto his argument. The story that is one about Hyde Park in London where the author explains how groups of strong belief speak to passersby and can more easily get an audience because of the amount of people in Hyde Park. Once this is thoroughly explained he goes on to compare this to the internet, he says that the internet is exactly like this, but on a much bigger scale where almost anyone can go and read whatever a person of strong belief has to say. After he explains the idea he continues into further detail by using another example that is closer to the topic. He speaks of a time when people actually managed to get the CDC to look into a disease that was all in their heads because so many people believed it to be a real thing. The CDC proved this disease to be all in in the head of the person that believed to be inflicted and yet many still think that this is a real disease. The author explains this belief to be powered by the internet. Seife clearly outlines facts that prove his statement to be true.