In this day and age of technology, social networking has become more popular than ever. People have the world at their fingertips with their blackberries, iphones, laptops, etc. Facebook, twitter, myspace, and all the other main social networking sites have become the main source of communication on the internet. Also, texting has become very popular these days as well. But is social networking breaking down our culture and our social skills? Or is it a healthy way to stay in contact with people through the internet?

By surfing the web, I came across an web-journal that featured an editorial on social networking. Written by Maria Quinlan, Social networking makes twits of us all, downplays the need for social networking and how it is deteriorating our society from within. Throughout this article, Quinlan, through Ethos Logos and Pathos, uses examples from experiences that she has witnessed about people being in touch more with the virtual world than the world that is actually surrounding them. Quinlan builds credibility after each experience that she goes through, mostly because they are first hand, and appeals to many emotions of mine because I have witnessed similar experienc...

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