The world
would be better without Facebook. Just look at how many hours people spend
gazing at their feed. If so much time is invested here, then it can’t be
invested in more productive pursuits [Antecedent and Consequence]. “But you are
throwing out the baby with the bathwater!” [Maxim/Proverb] some protest. Yes, I
am. The bathwater has become as dirty as a sewer, filled with the waste of others
[Similarity]. Just look at your Facebook wall. I know someone who had a post on
their wall that said that they ran out of toilet paper [Witness], making the
sewage analogy quite fitting. Not all aspects of it are bad [Contradiction],
you can keep in touch with those who are important to you even when you live
miles away. But this has become a small part of what Facebook is today. Most of
it is aimless ramblings [Whole/Parts]. It would be impossible to find a way to
filter only those things that keep us in touch, without going overboard [Possible/Impossible].
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| This poor guy spent all his time on Facebook. |
This phenomenon has even attracted the attention of the leaders of the LDS
church. “I invite us to identify the time-wasting distractions in our lives
that may need to be figuratively ground into dust” came the call from General
Conference recently [Authority]. Perhaps if we put our “face” in a “book”
[Notation and Conjugates] we could make more of ourselves, and humanity as a
whole. Just like when the phone gave us new ways to communicate and has stuck
around, Facebook will likely stick around for a long while [Genus/Species]. But
for us as individuals, just as we swore off that bad habit before, we can swear
off endlessly Facebooking! [Past Fact/ Future Fact]
Your post made me laugh with the comparison of the proverb and the waste on our facebook walls. Lots of good points and good rhetoric! It makes me wonder if you have a facebook or are just arguing this viewpoint for the assignment. Nice post!
ReplyDeleteI found your notation and conjugates topic of invention really clever and witty. You did a great job causing me to reflect on how much I actually use Facebook and how I haven't read a book "for fun" in the longest time.
ReplyDeleteDitto to both of the above! I thought it was interesting that you didn't state which speaker at general conference so I looked it up. Ian S. Arden of the seventy is responsible for that quote, but he is not very well known. Is that why you didn't state his name? He had more ethos as an unnamed conference speaker than as a named one?
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