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Weidu Vs. Gone With The Windows By Dorothy Nixon

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People’s opportunities in getting a job is at risk every time they go in for an interview. Some factors that play in the way of getting in a person’s job opportunity is media. In the essay “Job Candidates and Facebook” by Weidu vs. “Gone with the Windows” by Dorothy Nixon both have similarities and differences in many aspects. Both essays discuss what media causes but in contrast the stories don’t correlate. One of the essay speaks about a kid and media while the other talks about Jobs and media. Many do not know what problems social media can have in everyday life. The essay “Job Candidates and Facebook” Weidu explains how one self may look or appear professional but a job can find way more than that. Many jobs now hire professional individuals who search out a certain person who applied at a job and do a background check on them. Most of the things that are found about these people are found on Facebook although Facebook might be private they can find anything on a quick search on google. Weidu also speaks about how anything posted on social media will remain …show more content…

In the essay “Gone with the Windows” Nixon talks about a whole different subject. Nixon describes a young kid which is her son who has now broken the hard drive to his computer which now loses all the pictures of him. Furthermore, she starts speaking about the past and media. Nixon’s essay goes in depth on information and how It gets lost or restored. She explains that her son said to not take any worries on the pictures because nearly most of the other kids in his grade had the same pictures. But, Nixon goes more into depth on how back then the trouble of saving (keeping) a picture was way more difficult. Today’s society everything is a phone or button away from a save or delete button. In the end, her final point is that society in the twenty first century while be completely controlled by social media or media in

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