I Had A Nice Time With You Tonight On The App Rhetorical Analysis

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The article “I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight On the App” written by Jenna Wortham indicates that though Wortham’s personal experience of using smart phone communication applications. She has found immense benefits of these applications for people, outing to instant, entertaining and multitask functions. However, there are still couple of detrimental effects which attack people’s virtual communication skills and alienate people’s relationship. These limitations proved by the example of an online dating tool which Wortham is using with her boyfriend. Surrounding by an array of dazzling technical tools, Wortham still admits her desire of face-to-face talk. But it seems that she will not give up to use these digital communication tools and she …show more content…

Like the writer says in the article “Online interaction has their own kind of entertaining rapport that can coexist with their offline counterparts” (Whortham 396) . Especially for the young generation, a great number of young people generate the biggest part of users in digital communication apps. However, in terms of its entertaining rapport, it could be regarded as a double-edged sword. People are not likely to meet in the reality as frequent as before. Each of them becomes isolated in their own world, and hide themselves behind the hypocritical words and emojis. For a long term, They would be easy to suffer from some mental diseases. Such as Socialphobia and anxiety disorder. As people would have less belief on each others, they will be afraid to talk to strangers. On the other hand, the impact of network canard which broadcast by technical media must be pay more attention by the public. Some shocking events happen occasionally, which report that juveniles were deceived and murdered after they met some bad people through the digital applications. Moreover, not only bad people will be punished, but also do the apathy public, who ignore the truth and broadcast the rumors as the entertaining gossips. But they do not realize the excessive rumors from those social media are serious enough to lead an innocent people death. Someone may argue that we should not think the worst result when there is nothing happen. Tragedies never happen with forebode, and always start at a moderate start. Can anybody confirm that they would not curious about the gentleman who chat with you every day? Or they will not repost or comment a really funny video which someone is played tricks by others. The answer is negative. At least it is not be guaranteed by everybody. Therefore, so far as you are the one belongs to our society, you need to have the notion to prevent yourself form the hazard of digital

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