Schwegman In Class Writing #9

The audience of the article, "Stay Informed on Facebook's Third-Party Privacy Policies," is any Facebook user or Internet users who are concerned about their privacy. This is shown by the constant reference to our individual actions online. The article is responding to the growing population of Facebook and our decrease in caring about what we choose to show. The author scares us into believing people, a third party, is tuning into our information. The author gives us a sense of paranoria.

The author uses an extreme website to support his view. Although he believes this source is extreme and possibly untrue, he beleives this article gives a provoking thought. The article uses a rhetorical appeal, pathos, to prove his point. He shows that users continue to expose themselves in order to have social interactions. Asusers, we would rather have our personal lives out there, rather than not have a Facebook. Also, that money is more important than our privacy.

If I was writing an essay on online privacy, I would not use this article as an acceptable source. This article is too bias in showing that Facebook's privacy settings are unsafe. It only uses Facebook as an example and no other social media site. Also, the website it sites is very extreme. The author doesn't choose a median argument.