Blog Assignment 7
The essay that I select is "the Publication of Your Personal Profile"(page 33). The author of this essay is Megan Ramirez.
Author's claim:"When users of social networking websites such as Facebook or MySpace put personal information in their profiles, whether intentional or unintentional, they are allowing their private lives to be published which, in turn, give others the right to scrutinize them."
Reasons that support the author's claim:
1. With an increasing number of Facebook and Myspace users, people could visit the other user's the personal without restriction. As you put your personal information at your website, everyone could see it through the internet. For example, if you put a picture of illegal underage drinking, your actions could be seen by both of your parents and the police.
2. The restricted profile is not safe, actually. The strangers could visit your restricted profiles through their friends.
3. The users of Facebook and MySpace do not realize that they should be responsible for the information that they put it on their website.
4. The pictures and the information of the Facebook and MySpace users are subject to scrutiny no matter they know the truth or not.
The counterargument in this essay: there are so many users of Facebook and Myspace ignore the unsafe things about their personal information. They still enjoy putting and sharing their personal information on the internet.
The evidence that the writer use to support her claim: There are so many evidences. But the author strengthens the evidence of "potential employers will judge potential employees by seeing their profiles" and "In March 2008 at the University of Delaware, eight resident assistants were forced to resign due to posted pictures of themselves drinking on their facebook".
My reading feeling: In my opinion, this essay is really persuasive. Because the author gives us so many examples and database of bad outcome. It is easy for me to get involved in bad consequence if I do not realize the Facebook will show all of my information to all of the users of the internet. I should be careful to use my personal profile because the author offers me so many persuasive reasons.
