Rhetorical Activity 1 Pg. 186

For this activity I chose an article from the DA discussing Facebook and it's lack of necessity and misuse of information. In this article the writer discusses how unimportant the information is, and yet how it can be used for a profit because it reveals so much about our lives. Examples and maxims are used very effectively in this article to illustrate just how ridiculous the entire Facebook community is. Enthymemes are also used very effectively. The writer leads the reader through a series of postings put up by different users, how unnecessary the information is, and how everyone on Facebook indulges in writing such information. He makes the reader understand that Facebook is just fragments of lives thrown up on the spur of the moment without any real purpose or desired effect. The use of entymemes, examples and maxims are used quite effectively in this article because by the end of it you find yourself agreeing with the writer about Facebook.