Young, in Love and Sharing Everything, Including a Password

In the article Young, in Love and Sharing Everything, Including a Password by Matt Richtel it discusses how the new era of digital technology affects young couples. Technology has created a new trend seen mainly amongst teenagers, ,where teen couples share each others passwords to one anothers personal accounts. The account passwords teen share include e-mail, Facebook and other social networking sites. Sharing passwords can sometimes lead to rather difficult situations. For example, the article describes how an fallout in teen's relationships can lead to damage of someone's reputation. In addition Ritchel connects the sharing of passwords to teenagers way of being affectionate. According to Rosalind Wiseman, who studies how teenagers use technology "the sharing of passwords, and the pressure to do so, was somewhat similar to sex." The sharing of passwords shows trust within a relationship a vital key to a successful relationship. Later in the article it discusses how there are also other reasons to swap passwords. The reason being to eliminate distractions from other important things needed to be done, like studying for an exam. Without access to an account of some sort there wouldn't be unnessary distractions from the media.

Richtel uses logos when he uses supporting evidence in his article. The evidence is a persuasive reasoning to back up his claims that teenagers use swaping passwords as a technique to show affection. In addition, Richtel uses structural similarity throughout his article, tieing teenage use of media to teenage relationships.

In my opinion I agree with Richtel, more so with the issue of teenagers swaping passwords to show trust in their realtionship. Being able to give your personal password to personal accounts exhibit how teenagers have nothing to hide from each other. Richtel's article also evokes thoughts about the new era's media affect on teenagers and how it starts to take over and plays a major part in teenagers personal lives.

How to Write an Incendiary Blog Post

Chris Clarke's "How to Write an Incendiary Blog Post" show examples,to his knowledge, of certain content included in blogs that spark controversy. The word "incendiary" describes something that is likely to cause controversy, or something that is prone to starting fires. The author, instead of giving lengthy step-by-step instructions, lists out content seen in incendiary blog posts. The article doesn't necessarily instruct you on how to write a incendiary blog, but instead gives examples of content that are designed to cause controversy. Also the article

One rhetorical stratrgy Clarke decided to use was the anaphora "this sentence..." at the beginning of every sentence throughout his article. The anaphora used places emphasis on the phrase "this sentence..." to create a variety of effects, mainly to get a message from the writer to the reader.
Another rhetorical strategy Clarke uses is the repetition at the beginning of each sentence- sort of similar to the anaphora Clarke uses. The repetition used, similar to the anaphora used, places emphasis on Clarkes phrase "this sentence...". Overall Clarke tries to get the message out to the reader that certain content posted or seen in blogs create controversy amongst its readers.

People exhibiting controversy

My opinion about Clarke's article is he purposely designed this article to be read in a certain way. Also Clarke doesn't literally instruct you on how to write an incendiary post but instead list out "controversial" content seen in incendiary blogs. In addition, the article evokes thoughts and makes the reader think about the effects media has on people as the article summarizes content used to stir up controversy.