Social Network Critique
Jessica Montgomery
ENC 1011
Mr. Vaccaro
November 6, 2014 In “The Social Network” by Alissa Wilkinson, Wilkinson does a superb job of explaining Facebook. She begins by telling how she first came across Facebook and then goes into the story of the social network. The author gets her purpose across clearly using many different strategies and techniques. This article is geared towards people that are aware of Facebook and people that are in a certain age range. This article would most likely not mean much to the older community simply because most of them do not have a Facebook. It also wouldn’t be very important for someone that is young enough to always remember when Facebook was around. This article provides the prospective of first being introduced to Facebook so someone that is too young wouldn’t be able to relate. Wilkinson also does a good job explaining enough about the movie, “The Social Network” that if the reader has not seen the movie, it is still worth their while to read this article.
As she writes the article, Wilkinson seems to be a deep thinker. She has the underlying topic of how Facebook has changed the world and how the world is different with Facebook in it. She shows signs of sympathy when she talks about how Mark Zuckerberg will always be just slightly separated from the social world, yet he is the one that brought it online. She questions how Zuckerberg’s generation will be different because of the technology created by him.
Wilkinson is writing on a subject that has many angles you an attack it from. So it is fitting for her to talk from her perspective of how she found Facebook herself. Facebook happened very fast and changed the world even faster. To me it seems obvious that Wilkinson thinks this change in the world is something that needs to be discussed. She lived the change like many of us, and felt like she needed to talk about it. For the most part, this article is written to discuss and pose questions but there is also some
ENC 1011
Mr. Vaccaro
November 6, 2014 In “The Social Network” by Alissa Wilkinson, Wilkinson does a superb job of explaining Facebook. She begins by telling how she first came across Facebook and then goes into the story of the social network. The author gets her purpose across clearly using many different strategies and techniques. This article is geared towards people that are aware of Facebook and people that are in a certain age range. This article would most likely not mean much to the older community simply because most of them do not have a Facebook. It also wouldn’t be very important for someone that is young enough to always remember when Facebook was around. This article provides the prospective of first being introduced to Facebook so someone that is too young wouldn’t be able to relate. Wilkinson also does a good job explaining enough about the movie, “The Social Network” that if the reader has not seen the movie, it is still worth their while to read this article.
As she writes the article, Wilkinson seems to be a deep thinker. She has the underlying topic of how Facebook has changed the world and how the world is different with Facebook in it. She shows signs of sympathy when she talks about how Mark Zuckerberg will always be just slightly separated from the social world, yet he is the one that brought it online. She questions how Zuckerberg’s generation will be different because of the technology created by him.
Wilkinson is writing on a subject that has many angles you an attack it from. So it is fitting for her to talk from her perspective of how she found Facebook herself. Facebook happened very fast and changed the world even faster. To me it seems obvious that Wilkinson thinks this change in the world is something that needs to be discussed. She lived the change like many of us, and felt like she needed to talk about it. For the most part, this article is written to discuss and pose questions but there is also some