Week 9 : Refutation and Concession

1. What is my thesis?
SNS makes people lonely.
2. What is the opposite position?
SNS can not makes people lonely.
3. What arguments can I anticipate?
a)We can make friends through SNS.
b)We can communicate with friends everywhere and everytime through SNS. 
c)Many people use SNS to spend boring time.
4. How will I counter those arguments?
a)The wepsite friends is not real friends, it just makes people more lonely.
b)The SNS is a failed communication. and the SNS makes us compare with other person, then we will feel lonely.
c)Campus-SNS website addicts tend to be lonely.


My Refutation and Concession
47% of American adults used social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Classmates.com in 2011, up from 26% in 2008. On social media sites like these, users may develop biographical profiles, communicate with friends and strangers, do research, and share thoughts, photos, music, links, and more. I argued that SNS actually makes people feel lonely, and I have some evidence. Although I had prove my topic through logical confirmation, still some people will disagree with my topic.

Oppenents may say we can make new friends through SNS to deal with loneliness and boredom. But I can sure that the SNS friend is not a real friend. Friend is not a tool to deal with loneliness or a number to show to other person. also internet friends just can meet in the internet. when we had a talk with SNS friends and turned off the computer, cameback to the real world, we will feel
loneliness which more deeper than before. We live in real world is not a social network world.

Also oppenents may say We can communicate with friends everywhere and everytime through SNS, so we would not feel lonely. but the SNS is a failed communication. "Communication" means understand each other through speech and gesture. but most SNS cann't convey the perfact sence which implicited in text. When we communicate with others in face to face, we can show our expression and voice tone to give sence what I want to say and what I feel. But SNS just show text and a little emoticon. It is absurdly scant amount to convey perfact sence. So it is not communication.
Also  the SNS makes us compare with other person, then we will feel lonely.

Additionally, the oppenents may say many people use SNS to spend boring time. But as one study proved that campus-SNS website addicts tend to be lonely.

Proponents of social networking sites say that the online communities promote increased interaction with friends and family; offer teachers, librarians, and students valuable access to educational support and materials; facilitate social and political change; and disseminate useful information rapidly.
Opponents of social networking say that the sites prevent face-to-face communication; waste time on frivolous activity; alter children’s brains and behavior making them more prone to ADHD; expose users to predators like pedophiles and burglars; and spread false and potentially dangerous information.