Kornblum, Janet. “Meet My 5,000 New Best Pals”. Text Messaging: Reading and Writing about Popular Culture. John Alberti. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2009. 159-164. Print.
This essay was a very interesting source. The main ideas that Janet Kornblum was attempting to answer in her piece was how an online social life may change the understanding of what it means to be a friend and how social interactions on a social networking site can be similar to real interactions, but they could also change face-to-face communication. Kornblum uses many outside resources that contribute to her ideas.
This source was very useful for me. Not only was I able to find a lot of interesting information, but this source also lead me to another source as well. The use of outside research made this source reliable. Kornblum kept an objective tone throughout her piece, giving the pros and cons of her ideas.
The information that I gathered from this essay fit very well into my own essay. The research that Kornblum did will help me to answer questions of my own throughout my research essay. This information helped me to shape my argument by providing information about social networking and the development verbal communication skills. This source has also brought to light the amount of research I need in order to attempt to answer my own questions.
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I find that an online social life is comparable to that of a high school reunion. Connecting with friends you encounter once in awhile never achieving that level of friendship that one needs. It's not the same to share your feelings with a monitor versus a sympathetic shoulder.
ReplyDeleteI agree, that is a great way to put it.
ReplyDeleteTry to be more specific about how you will use the source in your essay instead of saying simply that will help or be useful or that you could "put it in" your essay. How does the source complicate your thinking?
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