To Believe or not to Believe

As a believer:
Farhad Majoo provides good evidence toward his conviction of facebook being a very useful tool for social communication. Majoo uses his prior experience with facebook as an example. He states how facebook is such a convenient way to stay in touch with his family in South Africa. He is able to see their daily activities with one click of a mouse rather than trying to picture his family’s story through phone conversations. This example is a good enough reason to believe Majoo’s argument for facebook’s usefulness. Pathos is used by Majoo’s example as it works on the reader’s emotion. The reader feels connected to Majoo in the fact that we all would love to communicate with our family and see their daily activities. Majoo also says that facebook is good for networking to sources in his job. This is also a very good reason to believe his argument. By Majoo providing these two good examples for the good usefulness of facebook, the reader is strongly persuaded to believe his argument and change their views about facebook.

As a Doubter:
Farhad Majoo also states many cons of the use of facebook, as a matter of fact there are more cons in his article than pros. The evidence used by Majoo for facebook being a bad social communication tool is extremely weak. Majoo does not provide good reasons for us to dislike facebook. Majoo states that many people did not like facebook because it is too hard to maintain. This is not a good reason for readers to change their minds about facebook. It does not appeal to a reader’s emotion or morals. In the last paragraph, Majoo tries to provide another good reason for one of the cons of facebook but he contradicts himself. Majoo's example, Kate Koppleman, states that facebook is bad because it shows everybody’s business and information and uses someone’s thoughts as an example. She states that she does not like facebook because it is too revealing but she herself uses it to look up people she does not know. The example’s has contradictory views and the reader can not take her quote as a valid evidence for us to change our views on facebook.