'On Facebook, Biggest Threat To Your Private Data May Be You'

Taylor Wright
English 1320
26 February 2013
Paper 3
The greatest way to argue a point is by adapting your message to appeal and relate to your audience on a personal level. By using the different writing methods such as word choice, tone, and appealing to emotions authors are not only able to present an argument, but can also back up their points by using support and evidence. When presenting a strong argument you have to defend your thought, while still taking into consideration the different opinions of your audience, and figure out how you can persuade them to change their mindset. In Jacquelyn Floyd’s article, “On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You”, she stresses the problems behind Facebook, and how users are
“The big alarm went off this week when alert bloggers noted a change in the micro-print terms and service agreement that goes with signing up for the ubiquitous social network site”. “Facebook owns you” (Hill 305)! Angry critics howled. This sentence explains that Facebook has set up a new rule that users must agree to allow full access to their information, and gives a specific example on the negative attitudes society has about this new rule. Floyd does not agree with society however and feels that they are the ones who are causing Facebook to have to put forth this agreement. She argues what difference does it make allowing Facebook to have access to your picture if you are putting it up on the internet for everyone to see anyway? It would be one thing if you only had your select closest friends on Facebook, but Floyd presents the point that now a days people add any and every one to their friends list just to make it look like they know as many people as possible. She proves the fact that people will share every little detail about their day causing their friends to have to go through their page until they can find what information is actually relevant. Floyds main idea is that the information on your Facebook page is already open for anyone to be able to take and save any thing that you put up on it anyway, Facebook has just decided to make it official through an agreement. Which she feels they
Their friend’s do the same to them-there’s no boundary between what goes on inside and outside their skulls” (Hill 304).This sentence is grabbing the reader’s emotions by directing it to things that all of them are guilty of doing. This sentence makes you stop and think as a media user am I too guilty of participating in these activities. Floyd is blaming society for not having a sense of what information should be private and what should be public anymore. This appeals to the way the reader views there activity on this site. Are they putting all of their heart and emotion into their Facebook statuses or are they putting broad information up. It also makes the think about the relevance to what is being posted and if people really even care about the stuff they are venting about on their page. Floyd calls her readers out for posting every little detail about their day, life, and personal situations. She presents that this is the main reason people don’t understand about what should be left unsaid. This negatively puts down the readers emotions making them feel like the information they have been posting hasn’t been viewed the way they presented it to be. Floyd is very brutal and upfront to help strongly get her point across. This method of honesty is