Summary Of Twitter Won T Water Your Flowers By Erick Erickson

In the article” Twitter won’t water your flowers: How social media is destroying our sense of community,” Erick Erickson argues about how social media “replaces engagement in our local community” which degrades physical relationships(Erickson). He believes people will neglect their own problems since they created their own delusional world by social media. Also he states that people who spend most of their time on social media will start to have a less of an opinion since they do not want to be “deviated from the group”(Erickson). Erickson criticizes how social media is leading people to be thoughtless, mindless drones that in the end will result in the loss of the physical community.
Erickson believes that people should rely and depend less on social media and rather be more dependent on physical friends to ensure a long time happiness. Erickson uses a bleak mood in his

He sets the mood with the first sentence of how his wife had “six months to live” which makes the reader feel unhopeful from the beginning(Erickson). This is remarkable because he created this gloomy mood without mentioning his main claim which is a warning to the reader that this article will be a warning of some kind. Another example of setting the mood is when he talks about “self-created worlds are not different, but evil”(Erickson). By presenting that social media is only a fantasy world created to escape the real one, he makes the readers feel tense about social media and how it can be considered a bad thing which only makes his argument stronger. Moreover, throughout most of Erickson’s article he relates to his own background story to make a clear point on what happened to him might happen to the reader. Erickson and his wife almost died and was afraid that his children would not be able to “understand they need to do what is right, not necessarily what is liked”(Erickson). His background story effectively appeals to the audience’s emotion which makes them