Brad Stone Social Media Thesis

The thesis that Brad Stone wrote about the effects of social media was that “Photos from drunken parties, recollections of sexual escapades, profanity or threats--all these indiscretions, posted online, have gotten students suspended or expelled, or harmed job prospects” (Stone 433). Stone put that thesis in paragraph four because the first three paragraphs were just a setup that was used, before getting to the main idea. While setting up the thesis, Stone used a story from a person that had issues with social media which created an imagery to point out the causes of why we use social media and effects of what would happen if miscommunication happens.

The topic sentences of paragraph 3 and 8 are, “but adults are taking notice” and “but not everyone's Facebook experiences have been positive” (Stone 432-433). Stone starts with a ‘but’ to catch a reader's attention and create a dramatic effect for the examples. Each topic
Students engage on this because they want free stuff like games, music, and shows; furthermore, it is easy to access websites that offer to give away these services. Additionally, items could be super rare and hard to find, so students will commit to piracy to get what they do not have. Sometimes, they could be expensive to students who do not have enough money. Though everything is there, the risks for these simple material is critical to the students' information because piracy easily steals it by offering fake rewards in exchange for their information. Not only information is at stake, but millions of dollars are lost in this practice which makes the industry who made it, close down because of the lack of income. This makes the consumers, including students, to be mad for the lost, since it was their favorites or perhaps part of their childhood. The risks that these students take is for their self-interest, not because it is