Facebook Rhetorical Analysis

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My Facebook page has not been updated in quite some time. However, it still contains pathos, logos, and ethos. Facebook is a social networking site that allows for people to stay in contact with others and to inform them on their thoughts, ideas, and in all, their whole day and life. It is packed with ethos because it is your life and no one knows it better then you do. There is no one who is more credible then you when it comes to what you think, feel, and do. It has logos in that there is reason to what some people say and post. They are posting their own thoughts and ideas and most of the time there is reasoning behind those. Then it also contains pathos in what some people post, whether that is in words or pictures. Sometimes people post things that cause emotional responses; sometimes they cause sadness, other times happiness, and even anger. When using Facebook…show more content…
You can post what you want and say what you want. You have the ability to show people who you are. You can pick your likes, dislikes, favorite things, and all your friends. Who you are friends with can sometimes allow people to know who you are. If you continuously have pictures with someone a lot of people think is nice, they assume you must be nice too. It is the same thing the other way around. People can tell a lot about someone by what they do on their social networking site. It is a place where rhetoric is also used all the time. It is a place where people write. At times they write very educated and insightful things but at others they write things that make no sense and have no meat behind them. Some people just write to write for no reason, while others always have a reason. To have effective rhetoric you need to have a reason behind your writing. You need to know what you are writing about and make it understandable for all those reading it. You need to have logos, ethos, and pathos to make your social networking site one that has effective

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