“The Facebook Sonnet,” a poem by Sherman Alexie, ponders the current cultures fascination with social media. Alexie explores how status updates are shaping and changing Facebook member’s day to day lives. Alexie gives his cynical opinion of the website in the form of a sonnet analyzing how Facebook is extending the immaturity of youth by concerning its users with ways to make their lives appear fulfilling to the general public in contrast to how great or not they actually are. “The Facebook Sonnet” describes twenty-first century culture in its most negative light by paints a picture of a self-centered society through Alexie’s use of satirical tone, rhyme scheme, assonance, and consonance. The tone of Alexie’s sonnet is one of satirical disgust, seen clearly in the seemingly light hearted greeting in the first line, “Welcome to the endless high-school Reunion” (Alexie, 1-2). When referring to the high school reunion he is making a reference to those stuck in the past, to those looking to relive high school memories not just for one night, as a high school reunion would, been every day. Keeping tabs with past friends, ex-boyfriends, and ex-girlfriends from the past is uncommon considering those relationships ended for one reason or another, many of them typically ending with one or both parties emotionally hurt. The tone is made obvious as Alexie goes on, “Welcome past friends and lovers, however kind or cruel” (2-3). Alexie is calling out users for welcoming back into their lives negative relationships, relationships that ended many years ago for one reason or another. It would be frowned upon in current society, for the typical married women to call her ex from high school to chat about how his career is going. However, as Alexie points out, to befriend him on Facebook and read about the same information through status updates is common practice in today’s times. Suddenly, because of social media, one never had