Using the Web is becoming part of an individual’s daily routine. As social networking becomes popular, more issues become relevant. Jenna Wortham introduces us to a popular website named Facebook, which is planning on going public. The writer employs personification, anecdotes, and sarcasm to articulate that without the users support the great success behind the website wouldn’t exist.
To get the reader’s attention, Wortham uses personification. The writer infers that “…it’s time to pull the plug” on Facebook, after a miscommunication occurred. Wortham gives life to an inanimate website to demonstrates how intense a bond can get. Those words are typically used on human beings when they can no longer live. The users are addicted, that when faced with no longer using the website, it’s as if it were a life or death situation. The website remains being compared to a human when Wortham mentions how Facebook is “…coming-of-age for the first offspring”. The writer uses these words to imply the growth that has followed the website. The writer chooses the word “first” to emphasize that there could still be more “off springs” to follow. Facebook is becoming…show more content… In the writing, Andrew Frank is introduced as an analyst by Jenna Wortham. He is quoted in the last paragraph; in which he mocks how at a point “…people though that way about AOL too”. Frank is referring to when AOL was just introduced and it was thought of the most popular website on the internet. Back then no one would have imagined that AOL was only a trend, since it was something new that people were not used to yet. By making that sarcastic comment, reader’s sense that what happened back then could possibly happen again. The writer leaves the sarcastic comment towards to end to leave the readers in a tone of awe. Wortham made sure this comment was in her reading so the public could be aware of how much control the people have towards the triumph of
