Social Media Rhetorical Analysis
Social media has corrupted our communication amplifying the fact that as a society people spend more time online than with our families. Social media has taken over society, people are more focused on what all the fake news is about, or who did what this weekend, than spending time with their children, teenagers, and loved ones. “16 year old boy-’ Some day, but certainly not now I’d like to learn how to have a conversation,’” (Turkle). It has come to the fact that parents and people are on social media so much that teens are confronting the problem. This 16 year old boy from Turkle’s article has exemplified this claim. Teens do not have a concept of good communication, because the people they look up to can’t hold a conversation with them
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While it might be true that it gives more opportunities for people to write; however If there is a poorly written paragraph or statement, who in all honesty is going to listen. Like said before when something is written poorly, has terrible grammar, abbreviations that can hardly be understood, then the author has no credibility and sooner than later has no audience. Society is saying that staring at a screen is a better way of communication than actually seeing and talking to each other in person. It’s not even a choice anymore, it’s an expectation to be on the internet, to communicate to people halfway across the country because why? Because now society can. “UK’s communications regulator says,’ Britons now text absent friends and family are more often than they speak to them on the phone or in person,’” (Kuper). Kuper is again giving another example of how technology has drawn society away from what is important and into a screen. Technology and social media has dominated our lives creating a false reality. People are going to technology for comfort and looking into non-living things to be there for them instead of their own families. As a society it has started to expect more from technology than each other. Technology has taken the chances of memories with your little sisters, secrets with your best friends, inside jokes with your brothers, and the life out of
While it might be true that it gives more opportunities for people to write; however If there is a poorly written paragraph or statement, who in all honesty is going to listen. Like said before when something is written poorly, has terrible grammar, abbreviations that can hardly be understood, then the author has no credibility and sooner than later has no audience. Society is saying that staring at a screen is a better way of communication than actually seeing and talking to each other in person. It’s not even a choice anymore, it’s an expectation to be on the internet, to communicate to people halfway across the country because why? Because now society can. “UK’s communications regulator says,’ Britons now text absent friends and family are more often than they speak to them on the phone or in person,’” (Kuper). Kuper is again giving another example of how technology has drawn society away from what is important and into a screen. Technology and social media has dominated our lives creating a false reality. People are going to technology for comfort and looking into non-living things to be there for them instead of their own families. As a society it has started to expect more from technology than each other. Technology has taken the chances of memories with your little sisters, secrets with your best friends, inside jokes with your brothers, and the life out of