Analysis Of Youthful Indiscretions
The essay I chose to write about is “Youthful Indiscretions: Should Colleges Protect Social Network Users from Themselves and Others”. This essay applies to my life because I grow up with social network and media in my everyday life. And it continues to be in my life every day. I can say that I don’t use Myspace anymore but I do use Facebook. Sense Myspace, and Facebook have been created it have consume my life. I mean I use it to keep in touch with my friends and family, share my thoughts, feelings, and life with them. When I got married and moved away it made it difficult to share with them my thoughts, or pictures I take when I go on vacations. I don’t have the same connection I have with them on the phone as I do online. I guess because
I can see them and what it is their doing. I know it may sound like I’m obsessed with social network but I’m not I spend at least two hours on it throughout my day but I believe that I have control over it. Would I be able to live without it? Probably not. As far as my community goes, I don’t believe they can’t either. We live in a world that is changing and social networking, and media is everywhere. We use it to get dates, make friends, and talk to one another. It’s much more dangerous but I don’t think it stop us from doing it. It makes our community more precautions and careful but it doesn’t stop us. One question this reading has raised in my mind is, what inspired the founders of Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace come up with such social tool?
To begin with, the reader of this essay will probably have to interest in this topic (social networks) or have experience with it. I don’t belief that someone who never use or don’t know of social media will be persuaded by this argument because they don’t really know background of social networks. Meaning, how someone can say that social media/network is bad for people they didn’t use it. I believe that reader is not trying call readers attention on college students and their profiles on social networks. By informing schools about the affects social media have on student can show them how it can benefit and destroy them as a person. There have been numerous of situations (as it shows in the reading) where students have got into trouble for posting stuff they probably didn’t mean to post, then there are other this where kids have use social network maybe setup a student group. By providing evidence of where incidents have occur with student have persuade me to be careful about what I say and do on social networks. For example, in Dana essay it said “In May 2005, two swimmers at Louisiana State University lost athletic scholarships for making disparaging comments about their coach on Facebook. And in October 2005, a student at Boston’s Fisher College was reportedly expelled for defaming a college police officer on Facebook”. When we see incident like this occurs I’m sure it persuade people to be careful about anything you write online because you never know who’s looking at you.
References
Ramage; Bean; Johnson, John D; John C; June. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. 9th Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions, 2011. VitalBook file. South University.
http://digitalbookshelf.southuniversity.edu/books/9781269641463/id/pg440
I can see them and what it is their doing. I know it may sound like I’m obsessed with social network but I’m not I spend at least two hours on it throughout my day but I believe that I have control over it. Would I be able to live without it? Probably not. As far as my community goes, I don’t believe they can’t either. We live in a world that is changing and social networking, and media is everywhere. We use it to get dates, make friends, and talk to one another. It’s much more dangerous but I don’t think it stop us from doing it. It makes our community more precautions and careful but it doesn’t stop us. One question this reading has raised in my mind is, what inspired the founders of Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace come up with such social tool?
To begin with, the reader of this essay will probably have to interest in this topic (social networks) or have experience with it. I don’t belief that someone who never use or don’t know of social media will be persuaded by this argument because they don’t really know background of social networks. Meaning, how someone can say that social media/network is bad for people they didn’t use it. I believe that reader is not trying call readers attention on college students and their profiles on social networks. By informing schools about the affects social media have on student can show them how it can benefit and destroy them as a person. There have been numerous of situations (as it shows in the reading) where students have got into trouble for posting stuff they probably didn’t mean to post, then there are other this where kids have use social network maybe setup a student group. By providing evidence of where incidents have occur with student have persuade me to be careful about what I say and do on social networks. For example, in Dana essay it said “In May 2005, two swimmers at Louisiana State University lost athletic scholarships for making disparaging comments about their coach on Facebook. And in October 2005, a student at Boston’s Fisher College was reportedly expelled for defaming a college police officer on Facebook”. When we see incident like this occurs I’m sure it persuade people to be careful about anything you write online because you never know who’s looking at you.
References
Ramage; Bean; Johnson, John D; John C; June. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. 9th Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions, 2011. VitalBook file. South University.
http://digitalbookshelf.southuniversity.edu/books/9781269641463/id/pg440