Pt1420 Assignment 1

1. What central claim is being made? (The claim is generally made in an explicit thesis statement.)The claim was that the internet is not safe because it can share your personable information easily. And allow others to look up your information.
2. What evidence is used to support that claim? Lori Andrews uses examples from peoples' life experience who had their information shared and how company don’t hire employees because of what they found about them in the internet/Facebook. The author also used collected data as evidences that were taken from the US population.
3. Does the evidence meet the criteria listed on pages 512-513? Explain. Yes, the evidence met the criteria listed on pages 512-513. The author used the accuracy, the adequacy,
and the relevance.
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What kinds of appeals are being made? The appeals that were being made were accuracy appeal where Lori Andrews have examples, facts, and opinions that are taken from reliable sources. She also made adequacy appeal in her article because the evident supported the claim entirely and not just Facebook, but the internet in general. The relevance appeal was also made because the evidences were directly applicable to the claim she made.
5. What assumption underlies the argument being made, and is it explicitly stated or implied? The understanding and suffering of the population when using their personal information are the assumptions underlie the argument that is being made in this article. Everyone should have the right to hide and save their personal information. No one should ever use anyone's information without permission and it should be protected.
6. What reasoning is used? Is it inductive or deductive? The reason being used in this article appeared to be inductive reasoning, because the author started by the Facebook problem into the issue of identity free use through the workplace and communication services.
7. What (if any) logical fallacies do you notice? I didn’t notice any logical fallacies being used in this article. It was great and very important and supportive
claim.
8. Who seems to be the target audience for this essay? Explain using evidence from the essay as support. The people that the author is targeting in this article are companies, employers, internet users, Facebook account holders. “The bits and bytes about your life can easily be used against you.” “Facebook makes money by selling ad space to companies that want to reach us” (Andrews).
9. Evaluate the essay overall - is it persuasive, especially in terms of making an effective argument to its intended audience? I really liked this article’s claim, and I agree with Lori Andrews. If I was to advise her I would ask her to share life experiences from different people and have them explain their hard situations caused by others using or looking up their personal information.
10. What is your personal reaction to the ideas raised in this essay? Write a few lines responding to the essay and offering your own opinions. I totally would not like anyone, especially my employer, to gauge me according to my online information. Work is work, and if a company finds be not fitting their requirements then that's the time it has the right to not want me to work in it. Also, if everyone can easy get to my personal information without any permission from me then I will for sure be in bag danger and my identity will be stolen very easily. Also, I think the Facebook Company should have more restrictions and protection to its users’ personal information. It should be held responsible for any identity theft happened through its system if information is used without the users notice.