Response to "The Web Means the end of Forgetting"

         In Jeffery Rosen's "The web means the end of forgetting," he makes some great arguments about social networking and daily life. He starts his essay with a personal experience of a young woman named Stacy Snyder. Her story is one example of logos. Jeffery also supports his arguments with ethos and pathos. Throughout Rosen's paper he has many different professional opinions. Some examples of these are, a book by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, The New York Times, and an article written in 1890 by Samuel Warren. By Rosen using these professional opinions it shows his credibility or his ethos. What really draws people into Jeffery's paper his is use of pathos or his emotional appeal. When he is giving examples to support his opinion about the web not forgetting he uses personal issues such as Stacy Snyder's "drunken pirate" picture posted on her Facebook wall. She was fired from her student teaching job as well as not receiving her education degree because they said she was a bad influence to her students. Stay isn't the only one who has been stopped from getting a job or degree from this social network issue. Rosen stated in his paper that many jobs ask to see your Facebook walls before you get the job or even at the very first interview. This brings me to Rosen's use of logos or the statistics of this issue. Jobs are not the only place that have been checking Facebook's, Twitters, and Myspace's. The US recruiters hold their recruits liable through their Facebook walls. Jeffery said that seventy-five percent of recruits have been turned down because of things that they have posted or things that have been posted on their Facebook walls. Another logos Rosen uses is when he told us about the five billion plus Facebook users. What these five billion Facebook users don't know is that their privacy isn't very private on this web site. They don't know because they didn't spent the time to read the more than five thousand word terms and conditions. I think Jeffery Rosen did a great job stating arguments with ethos, pathos, and logos. I do totally agree that once we post something on Facebook that it is on the internet forever. Although one thing that I don't agree with is that jobs and recruiters can check Facebook walls. I believe that their is a line between professional and personal,  meaning that what you do on your own time when the job is not paying you is your time you shouldn't be judged based on that. All in all, Rosen's paper was a great at placing arguments with ethos, pathos, and logos. It definitely made you think.