Over the past 10 years, social networking has gone to something unheard of; to becoming the main way, people connect with each other all over the world. Threw the Internet people can connect with friends that moved to different towns, states or even continents. In the article “I Need MySpace” written by Cindy Long, informs the readers on a outdated social networking site MySpace. Long makes the argument that even though these sites offer a beneficial aspect of the site, they also open opportunities for sexual predators to be able to look up and pin point locations of children.
Cindy Long argument within her writing is not very strong, she picked a one sided argument that really no one can argue against because everyone knows that with using social networking sites comes a risk of running into some predators. Though her argument may not be strong without a notification of another side of the argument, she uses Pathos and Logos to make up for that. Long use logos by having several examples in her writing about teenagers going behind parents backs to meet specific people that they met on these sights. Pathos is used threw scaring parent readers on the fact that predators use these types of sights to look for children. Though this should not be a shocker to parents, it often is because parents try to not think about that when it comes to these social networking cites.
Personally I have never really been into MySpace or facebook, though I do have one and spend a good amount of time looking at what my friends are doing, I am not one of the people that adds a friend the first time I meet them. This is when facebook becomes dangerous, these cites have came a long way in security and continue to make sure that no predators can easily access information threw children. But teenagers are more focuses on the number of friends they have rather than the fact that they are actual friends or just some random dude that thinks your “hot”.
I agree with you Colin, as I read “I Need My Space” by Cindy Long as well. I have to agree with you on how she writes her argument that there really is no arguing against since everyone knows that there is a danger to having a social networking site. I found that she used a lot of logos as you mentioned, but there is little pathos that I could identify. You did a good job on identifying the parts that strengthen her argument, but you forgot to mention the tone and her vocabulary that attracts and repels readers at the same time.
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