...stood still and at some point Melissa cried a little. Afterwards we were quiet for a long time. It seems like ages. He gave us one final piece of advice before we went on. The texts in section A focus on social networking. 1. Write a summary of “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook” (text 2) in about 150 words. “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook” is written by Elizabeth Cohen. It is a short text that tells us stories about people being addicted to Facebook. In the story we hear about a person named Cynthia Newton. She has a 12-year-old daughter, that once asked her if she could help her with her homework, but Cynthia couldn’t because she was too busy with being on Facebook. According to the article, family therapists see more and more people who have a problem or are addicted to Facebook. Joanna Lipari compared Facebook to “The Truman Show”. “The Truman Show” is a movie about a world where nothing goes wrong. So for Joanna Lipari, Facebook is a world without problems and boundaries. The text also includes a list consisting of examples on that you might be addicted to Facebook. You lose sleep over Facebook, because you stay up late at night because Facebook is more attractive than your bed. 2. Give an outline of the positive and...
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...be between family, friends, or just ourselves. Canvases of black and white photos and daily updates filled with nostalgic memories; social media had its purpose, but are some platforms better than others? Twitter and Facebook are two of the most common sites that have remained over the evolution of technology. Both have updated and transformed into complete replicas of our mind; suggestions of products that we know and love, videos that produce tears of joy, and posts that hold our entire life in a simple cropped and filtered image. But sometimes too much freedom can be a little overbearing. Facebook allows for posts to have an infinite word count which can provide readers with all the information they need, but it can also take up an entire screen. Twitter on the other hand has a 280 character limit and...
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...------------------------------------------------- Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts Today’s society is extremely affected by the media and social devices, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter etc. Many people measure their popularity and look solely on how many “likes” and positive comments they attract on these media sites. Especially a lot of the young people who grow up in a world, where they see this phenomenon as completely normal, even though it’s far from the real one. “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” is an essay by Jonathan Franzen, an acclaimed American novelist and essayist. The essay is based on his speech at Kenyon College, Ohio, USA, and was published in The New York Times, May 28, 2011. Whit this essay Franzen tries to remind people of the true meaning of love and not being so terrified of rejection. Even though technology might be at its peak and has features “Like a magician’s incantations” (p. 1. L. 38). Besides the newest technology including fancy gadgets, materialism in general seems to be taking over the entire western world. According to Franzen you don’t show love to another person by showing interest in their life and have regular conversations. Not even the words “I love you”, measure up to actually receiving something material. “… if you love somebody you should by stuff” (p. 2. Ll. 76-77). However there is one thing that in today’s society battles out even giving or receiving material things: the “like” you give, or receive, while...
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...During this course, I been leaning to write with the help of different literary devices such as visual texts or books. For two of the major assignment for this course 1301 English I used images to write a rhetorical analysis about the negative side of Facebook and with the help of a book called The Intervention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd I wrote a literary analysis. Therefore, while reviewing those essays I found there are some mistakes with the structure of the essay, there are enough examples to support the main idea, and I need to improve grammatical mistakes. For a good essay the structure should include the three main parts an introduction, body, and the conclusion. On both of my essays I include those three parts, however the thesis statement...
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...say. Another quote that appeals to us as a young audience is: ‘’It’s all one big endless loop. We lie the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.’’ This is one of the issues the youth have, to look good and be liked. And by this quote he light up this. The message of this essay is that.. 2. Write a funnel introduction a. Write an alternative introduction, where you begin with a quotation from Franzen’s essay ‘’Alongside their built-in eagerness (of consumer technology products) to be liked is a built-in eagerness to reflect well on us. Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of sense of mastery.’’ Here he addresses his young self-centred audience. He shows us how the new technology has its effect on them. How it makes them more and more selfish and anti-social. Anti-social in a way, that they care more and more about themselves, technology and Facebook and less about their friend and the society. Dette er ikke en opgave til fem elevtimer Men glædelig jul alligevel Håber SRP-ugerne gik...
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...After reading the article, I remember the Carr's essay on Google. Both of essays are talking about the disadvantage of the technology. This article is totally talk about the disadvantages of having a conversation through technology instead of a face to face conservation. It is the same idea with the Carr's essay which talk about when people are reading more than they used to and they aren't reading to retain the information. Also when they read online, they tend to become 'mere decoders of information." For me,I am agree with the Marche's findings. In the article Marche says people who spend their time on devices and social network sights are finding themselves lacking in the ability to communicate in person. That's is right because although we might have has many friends on Facebook we might not really know them and just have them there for show. And when we talk about each other are you good or bad is just from the social media. This is a totally different feeling with face to face. Also the examples the Marche take in the essay is very correct and have a strong persuasion. So I say Facebook have a huge impact on people which is negative. Someone say if the social media made us so lonely, why it is still so popular among the people. As I say it's just because it is easy to use and it is easy for us to see the people far away. Whatever you are, we can connect with each other fast and...
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...Baker H. Alfarajat English 100 BC Page 7/17/2014 Essay #1 3rd draft Could the millions of Facebook users be lonely? Stephen Marche in his article “Is Facebook making us Lonely?”(The Atlantic Monthly) discusses whether Facebook makes people lonely or not. The author thinks that Facebook makes people lonely and isolated from their families or even from society. Also being lonely decreases the opportunity of exercising and increases the opportunity of illness. I believe that Facebook does not make people lonely because lonely people are lonely with it or without it, Facebook makes people socialize more and have closer relationships with each other. First of all, lonely people are often lonely whether they have Facebook or not. Marche says, “Burke’s research does not support the assertion that Facebook create loneliness. The people who experience loneliness on Facebook are lonely away from Facebook”. (2012) These people isolate themselves from interacting with their families, friends or society. For example, my neighbor Yafy uses Facebook always, but he does not go out with friends. Also he does not sit with his family. In my opinion he has already isolated himself from family and friends. Sometime he tries to talk to people via Facebook, so Facebook never lead to loneliness. Second, Facebook users can socialize more with each other. When Facebook users see that their friend is happy or sad in a Facebook status, they may be led to interact with that friend face to face. Marche says...
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...Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts is an essay written by Jonathan Franzen. He is from America and he is a novelist and essayist. The essay by Jonathan Franzen is based on a commencement speech he delivered at Kenyon College, Ohio, USA. The essay starts talking about a relationship with his phone. He is impressed by how far out worlds technology have come and how advanced our civilization has become. He got his new smartphone and three years later, it is much more advanced than before. Jonathan Franzen is telling about how we live our lives and how we make in this case the smartphone so personify and makes us addicted to technology. Franzen is also talking about his new phone and bringing to debate about we personify and threat our new technology equipment we have with us every day. The ultimate goal with technology is “to replace a natural world that is indifferent to our wishes – a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance – with a world so responsive to our wished as to be effectively, a mere extension of the self” (p.2.55-61). Then Jonathan Franzen starts debating about technology and it is trouble by real love, and has no choice to trouble love in return. The way Jonathan Franzen engaging the audience is creative and very interesting. He is admitting that he is an old man at 51 years and he have become really tired of the use of technology, but even though he admit he have become...
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...Stupid?” Nowadays it can be considered a general fact that the internet helps people in various ways, not only at work, but also in their personal lives. Most people see the internet and social networks as an enormous asset to their everyday life. However, according to Diana Schaub in her essay, “Unfriending friendship,” and Nicholas Carr in his essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” the internet and social media also causes negative effects on our everyday life. Even though these two essays, both written around the year 2010, have different topics and there are certainly differences in the authors’ writing styles, they still have some similarities. These two essays share a similar theme: that the internet and social media diminish our human capabilities to think and make friends. Some differences occur in how Carr and Schaub approach their readers’, one author uses personal examples and the other shows differences in word meanings. In Carr’s article, he includes his own examples to show readers how the internet has changed his capability of reading longer texts; now his attention span has greatly decreased because he is used to short style of text on the internet. At the beginning of Carr’s essay there is a short part of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddyssey which Carr uses to show readers how far we have come with technology. Carr not only uses his own example of how technology changed him (for example, he is impatient and craves information instantaneously) but also shows how...
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...In Jonathan Franzen’s essay: ‘Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts’(2011), he talks about the problem with actual love in our modern ‘techno-consumerist’- society. Franzen starts out by describing the almost infatuated love he has had throughout the years for new gadgets. He considers his ‘relationship’ to his old Blackberry as having been almost like the sort of relationship you would normally have to another person. Furthermore he points out, that our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship. To support this statement he draws attention to the fact that the word ‘sexy’ almost always is used to describe the latest gadgets on the market. Our beloved gadgets don’t ask for anything, but they always obey our smallest winks -instantly. These sexy gadgets substitute the natural and real world, that’s indifferent to our wishes and personal needs. Problematic, Franzen thinks. A related phenomenon is the commodification of love. If you love somebody you should buy stuff for them, whether that would be diamonds as a symbol of your everlasting love or an automobile for Christmas as a symbol of your big wallet. Another nauseating tendency is Facebook and the verb ‘to like.’ To like something on Facebook – and in general, is like a commercial substitute for loving. I must say, as a frequent Facebook user I am embarrassed. There is this term of abuse, a ‘likehunter’ that is being used about a person who is...
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...Essay on “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” We’re spending more and more time online and less time out in the real world. But is modern technology really doing us harm? And are we missing out on a lot of important stuff when we hide behind our screens and use a mouse as our mouthpiece? These are some of the important question that arise from reading Jonathan Franzen’s essay, “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” from 2011. The 51-year-old author puts our daily internet routines into perspective and forces us to think critically about what we are doing online. But he beats around the bush for a while before he starts presenting his actual message. He thus starts out sharing a personal experience of getting a new smartphone and uses this as a starting point for voicing his concerns. Jonathan Franzen is aware of the danger of scaring off those young readers who might be fed up with older people complaining about the youth of today, “Very probably, you’re sick to death of hearing social media disrespected by cranky 51-year-olds” (ll. 140-142). He therefore catches this young audience’s attention by comparing his relationship to his outdated smartphone to a relationship of romantic nature. He uses familiar expressions like “trust issues”, “accountability issues” and having “outgrown the relationship”. In this...
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...30/10/2013 Cyclermate - Term Papers - Blackcat911 « Study and create flashcards for free at Cram.com Sign In | Sign Up Essays Book Notes AP Notes Citation Generator More Search essays Home » Business & Economy » Marketing & Advertising Cyclermate By blackcat911, november 2012 | 14 Pages (3473 Words) | 122 Views| | | Sign Up to access full essay This is a Premium essay for upgraded members Cyclermate Ltd. Part 1 Historical background In 1988, Lewis Llewellyn and Dai Armstrong were made redundant as a result of the closure of their town’s steel works in south Wales. Both had been employed by the firm for more than 20 years. Lewis had worked his way up from apprentice to be chief mill engineer, and Dai had progressed from “office boy” to a senior marketing post. The men belonged to the local cycle touring club, and through this had become close friends. As the prospects for continued local employment were poor, they decided to use their savings to set up a bicycle manufacturing business – an obvious choice, given their shared interest, and combined expertise. The product they selected was a “traditional” upright cycle, following a design typical of the 1940’s and 1950’s. They believed that there would be a strong “niche” market for such a product, given the upsurge in interest in cycling, and increasing consumer interest in “retro” styles. Working in Lewis’s garage, they built their first prototype. Dai persuaded a local cycle shop to...
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...Argumentative Essay – Facebook Should the German Government strictly regulate Facebook and Google’s use of your information or is their use of your information simply the cost of your user access to their websites? Construct an argumentative essay to answer this question referencing the two articles you were given on the topic. This essay will argue that the German Government should strictly regulate the use of information by presenting arguments in favour of this thesis, debilitating a counter argument and referencing the articles “Facebook’s Targeted Ads Expand To The Web” by Vauhini Vara and “Germany’s War with Facebook and Google over Privacy” by Heather Horn. Facebook and its broad collection of Facebook user’s data rises privacy concerns. When a person registers, they agree with Facebook’s privacy agreement and allow them to use their data for customized ads and other apolitical purposes that are mentioned in the agreement. But also when someone isn’t registered logged in, Facebook tracks which sides this person visits and saves this data to present them with personalized ads – same as Google. Vara states that Facebook uses people’s names and friends to make an ad more believable. Here, there is the possibility to opt out by following a very difficult path through the personal settings. But this only means that the ads won’t be seen anymore. Facebook will still collect personal information and store all that data. It is really hard to get insight in that process and...
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...TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory Join Search Browse Saved Papers Home Page » Other Topics Facebook Is a Good Communication Tool In: Other Topics Facebook Is a Good Communication Tool Facebook is a popular social networking website that allows you to create a free profile and make friends online. You can use Facebook to connect with people you know, such as friends and family, or to network by making new connections or promoting a business. Facebook for Emergencies: Facebook is a great tool to use for emergencies, when it is crucial to spread a message quickly and efficiently. It was particularly effective in the recent disaster in Haiti. Networks were set up to get individuals information on loved ones as well as the many fundraisers appealing for donations. Facebook for Teens: While a lot of parents may complain about their teenagers being logged into their Facebook account constantly, specialists are of the view that this form of dynamic and active communication plays a great role in developing social skills that are essential in the real world. It is also great way to find out what is going on in your child’s life and their circle of friends. There is one drawback. Your child has control of whether or not they “friend” you and how much they let you see. There are ways around this however. In many cases your child’s friend will actually “friend”...
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