The Negative Effects Of Social Media On Young Adults?

There is a kind of people who cannot leave from their phone at all even just one minute appear to the society. They use their phone to check their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social networking sites when they are eating, before sleeping, during walking, in the class and etc, whenever and wherever possible. That shows how intensely those social media influence human’s life. Pew Research Center (2015) reported almost three out of four online adults use social networking sites in 2014. The impacts of social networking sites also act on children and teenagers besides adults. So there are many researches study the impacts of social networking sites for different people, which include two articles. One is “Social Networking Fact Sheet”,

Another one is called “The Negative Effects of Social Media on Young Adults”, which was published by Georgia College & State University in 2015. It argued the negative effects of social media on children and young adults, and how to reduce the effects. There are 3 methods which includes education, Extra-Curricular Programs and limitation on social media. Those two articles let people realize social networking sites from different angles, but what makes them convince the audience? There are three important rhetorical aspects including ethos, logos, and effectiveness to achieve that.
First one is ethos which means establishing credibility front of the audience. Both articles create ethos well. For the

For the first article, the sponsor Pew Research Center has high authority in public, because “Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts”, as the statement for Pew Research Center’s itself. About the words in the article, the author used objective words in the whole article. The audience cannot find any personal opinion or bias in the article. In addition, Pew Research Center (2015) presented a fact that Getting is more than giving for Facebook users, and that supported the function of “power users” in the social media. People believe numbers more than words in most of times, moreover, it has three graphs to illustrate the ideas directly and clearly which include a table of the distribution of the age group, a line chart about the growth of various age groups of users who use social networking sites from 2005 to 2013, and a table about population of cell phone users who use social networking sites by phones. Furthermore, the chart given “who uses social networking sites” by the audience shows the young people from 18 to 29 is the group who use social networking sites most. About the