Josh Rose Social Media Analysis

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In my view, the essay was Josh’s self-reflection of social media and advanced technology. He organized the essay in a small sub-titles, it makes reader easy to understand. His emotional examples make the essay more powerful. The whole essay was reasonable and logical. Even the essay does not including any statistics but the point of view was different than the mass of society. I feel like his Josh Rose is single father facing difficult times to communicate with his son because the son is growing up in two houses, as he did. The technology and social media are helping them to filling up the time those they we’re apart. We should all care about it because, these are important in our daily life. Currently, our society disapproves social media's’ …show more content…

He clearly organized essay into subtitles, it makes the reader focus on the theme. Over again, his proving social media's advantage by talking about posting a question on social media sites about “...is all this making you feels closer to people or farther away?” Nowadays, we used to all social media sites and using it to express our ideas, feeling, or daily life but connecting to the topic, it makes me pay attention to it. He compared between cold digital interactions and real life interactions such pokes and hugs, it makes his argument more reasonable. Rose stated that “social media simultaneously draw us nearer and distances us,” the quote quite confused me, but simultaneously draws an ironic sense. He found similarity between printing-press, movies, television, video games and social media’s are advanced technology and, all captures society’s attention at the time they were coming out. The technological evolution seems like under our control, but we never know. Josh strongly agreed Adam Gopnik’s article called “ How the Internet Gets Inside Us,” the article was about the three viewing points of internet users which are the Never-Betters refers to those who see the current movement as well, Better- Newer refers to those who see the current movement as bad, and Ever-Wasters refers to those who see the current movement as normal. In my point of view, those three stages simply connecting to age, and society.

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