blog assignment 7

In the essay The Publication of Your Personal Profile by Megan Ramirez, it claims that “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, gives others the right to scrutinize them”, which indicates that these social networking websites make private not private anymore. She uses following reasons to support her claim: 1) users of social networking websites do not know that their restricted profile can be easily gain access by faking account to get access, 2) users of social networking websites do not realized that the profiles and information put on the website can show their private aspect of their lives, 3) an increasing number of employers decide hire employees based on looking through employees’ private profiles on the websites, 4) users of Facebook or MySpace do not realize that they should be responsible for their private profile. Also, the writer uses a counterargument that using Facebook or MySpace can be entertaining to make her essay more convincible because she thinks although using Facebook or MySpace is funny, we still should realize that we need to be responsible for what we put on the website and protect our private. The writer uses plenty of examples to support her claim also she uses some statistics to make essay more convincible, like “the largest social networking website, MySpace, has approximately 320,000 new users join every day” (Megan 33).
I think this essay is very persuasive because she uses logical reasons to support her claim, and there always are plenty of examples follow each reason, which makes this essay more convincible.