Essay about The Fakebook Generation: Rhetorical Analysis

Nowadays it seems there is a constant riff between those who love social media and those who do not; usually between older and younger generations. The classroom, emblematic of this struggle, is where the appropriateness of social media comes into question. Jane Mathison Fife, a professor at Western Kentucky University wrote, “Using Facebook to Teach Rhetorical Analysis,” in Pedagogy argues that frequent Facebook users have strong classical rhetorical analytical skills relating to Ethos, Logos and Pathos. Rhetorical analytical elements were originally described by Aristotle as the writer’s credibility being ethos, an appeal to emotion being pathos and evidence and reason as logos. Like most successful authors, Fife employs the use of rhetorical elements. Throughout the article, she excels in establishing pathos during the beginning of her paper which helps her connect with the audience and establish a good ethos; however, she falls short in building logos as her paper lacks organization and using evidence from familiar sources.

From a few seconds to respond to a friend’s text, countless hours spent gramming, snapchatting, tweeting, posting on Facebook, pinning on Pinterest, and many other forms of social media, teenagers today are non-stop connected to their phones, laptops, tablets, computers, etc., creating or strengthening social bonds. Your social identity is very important today, and the mount of friends you have on facebook, or amount of retweets or likes you get are a sign of your social superiority. This paper aims to evaluate Melissa Healy’s use of rhetorical strategies, such as ethos, pathos, and logos, in “Teenage social media butterflies may not be such a bad idea.” Healy uses rhetorical appeals effectively in her causal argument about adolescents and social relationships teenagers have that deal in result to social media.

In Sherman Alexie’s poem “The Facebook Sonnet” Alexie brings up a controversy, over all social media because it absorbs society into the depths of dark unknowns and prevents physical face to face communication. Even though Facebook allows people to stay up to date with friends, whether they be new or deep-rooted, the platform tears its users away from substantial social interaction with others. People can connect to the world by the click of the mouse and know what is going on at any given time. Social media requires ones everlasting attention, and the addiction is almost comparable to that of a cigarette, one cannot give it up and is always thinking about when one can check it again. People become so caught up in trying to perceive what everyone else is doing, they forget that they have a reality to live and fail to maintain real relationships. “The Facebook Sonnet” belittles the social media platform by emphasizing how obsessed society is with making themselves look perfect for the screen. One is either gripping to their past or obsessing over the present.

In this article she is giving us a look into the damage that social networks can do to students in their job, school, and life. She talks about the millions of members that are already using these sites and that they still growing. The members use these sites to make friends, find old friends, and to talk to friends. “The only

Mathison composes that “students” energy for and submersion in these nonacademic proficiencies [Facebook sites] can be utilized to supplement their learning of basic request and conventional scholastic ideas like rhetorical analysis. In spite of the fact that they read these writings day by day, they are frequently unconscious of the “sophisticated rhetorical analysis” they utilize while perusing others' profiles, or when they edit their

Brandon Stanton the author of Humans of New York successfully used pathos and ethos to explain his subject’s stories through the multimodal genre in todays social media world. Using pop culture, Humans of New York became a household name for expressing some difficult material happening in todays society. HONY became popular because the use of online sources to spark a conversation about issues in the world, has increased as well as the use of ethos and pathos in a post. Nearly eight to ten Americans are on Facebook (Greenwood), the possibly of people seeing these social issues online is increasing tremendously. The use for technology is rise as well as the human connection through the internet. Being able to connect to across the other side

The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever.

“Is Facebooks the one to blame” The social media revolution that in part is led by Facebook has had many effects on the way its users live and interact. Stephen Marche tells us in his essay “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” , how much Facebook has helped make its many user lonely.

“Social media allows people to connect with each other to create and share information. It is people-powered communication, an authentic dialogue motivated by a basic human desire to share information” (CIPD, Social Media and Employee Voice Report 2013). ‘Click’ and my message is on its way to my friend’s Facebook inbox hundred of miles away. The astonishing speed of how quick we can communicate in today’s societies, all thanks to social media. The invention of Facebook simplified everything we know about communication. We can connect to people whenever and wherever, sharing information has never been more convenient and exciting. In Shane Hipps’ Article, “ Is Facebook Killing Our Souls?,” he has no intention to impede technological advancements, instead he wants users to understand technologies with insights. According to my research, although Hipps ' points has some merits, I disagree with him because he overgeneralized the impacts that Facebook and other social media has on users’ behaviors and identities.

In the first paragraph of my first article, I will analyze how People use social media to push the borders between what is normally considered proper and improper, Facebook will be analysed in this article based on Erving Goffman’s studies of dramaturgical model of social interaction and finally will study the distinction between both front and back stage in social media. Front stage can be regarded as the part of the space in which the individual is more demonstrative in his or her action in front of their audience; whereas, the backstage is totally hidden from the

Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, and Flicker was invented to keep us in touch and keep us closer to our family and friends. But according to How Facebook ruins Friendships “we took our friendship online” (Bernstein). First we began communicating more by email than by phone and then switched to instant messaging or texting. By joining social Medias online

At first, I agreed with Stephen Marche, author of “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”, but after doing some of my own research I would like to retract my original position. We cannot blame technology for our own human condition. However Stephen Marche begs to differ. “At the forefront of all this unexpectedly lonely interactivity is Facebook, with 845 million users and $3.7 billion in revenue last year” (Marche). Stephen Marche believes Facebook is making us lonely because it is changing the dynamics of traditional friendships (Marche). He also blames Facebook for the rise in human isolation. From 1950 to 2010 a 17 percent increase in households of one were reported (Marche). Does Marche not realize that many happy Americans

At the end of David Fincher’s film, The Social Network, Sean Parker sums up the progress of today’s society “we lived on farms, then we lived on cities, and now we are going to live on the internet”. Narrated through parallel story lines; the process of creating Facebook and the resulting lawsuits between Zuckerberg and Saverin and the Winklevoss Twins and Diva Nirendera. The film re-tells the story of the birth of Facebook, created by Mark Zuckerberg and his associates, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. The idea of human interest is explored throughout, in the lasting consequences that jealousy, greed and betrayal has on relationships. Through this Fincher provides a critique of how today’s society connects. The realism of the film, created thorough costuming, dialogue and lighting accentuates the need for real relationships, messy and vulnerable though they are, compared to disconnected virtual ones which lack warmth and authenticity. Fincher provokes the audience to question their own lives and asks if a society that lives on the internet is a good direction to head.

Facebook is currently largest social networking site in the world based on monthly unique visitors – attracting 130 million unique visitors every day (Alexa Inc. 2012). The site’s popularity exploded in 2007 and it bypassed its social networking rival, MySpace, in April 2008 (Phillips 2007). Over the last few years Facebook has impacted people’s social lives in various ways. With its availability on modern smart phones, Facebook enables users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and peers wherever they are in the world as long as they have internet access. It can also group people together who share beliefs and interests and has been known to even reunite lost family members and friends through its enormous social reach

Greenfield expresses concern that social networking will displace the ‘true self’ with an exaggerated, ideal self.”(1) The minds of the generation that is growing up with this new technology are being shaped differently.