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Summary Of The IRL Fetish By Nathan Jurgenson

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Far too often, humans are checking out of real life and checking into a virtual world. In the article, The IRL Fetish, written by Nathan Jurgenson, there are many negative references to the effects that technology has had on our world in this day and age. Face to face conversations are currently seen as something special instead of something that occurs in everyday life. When people are not scrolling through social media, they are constantly thinking about who could be online and what they could possibly post next. There is an ongoing problem with human infatuation with the online world and all that it entails. I would concur that this article does an exceptional job displaying the issues of individuals only caring about an online world and …show more content…

He presents the article as a whole with total confidence that his claims are correct. A specific example of logos would be when he states “What a ridiculous state of affairs this is. To obsess over the offline and deny all the ways we routinely remain disconnected is to fetishize this disconnection”(Jurgenson). This appeals to logic because when a person claims that something that another person does is ridiculous, the person being targeted usually feels foolish and the only logical response would be to stop doing that. Another use of logos would be when the author says that humans do appreciate the small stuff more than people did in the past. This is logical because since we do not do the small things as often, it would make sense for people to appreciate them a bit more than they did in the past. Jurgenson appeals to logic to persuade his readers that people who claimed to be logged off of social media aren’t truly offline. Jurgenson notes,’’There was and is no offline; it is a lusted-after fetish object that some claim special ability to attain, and it has always been a phantom.’’ This quotes proves the writer's point because society is always looking for praise from their colleagues and friends for supposedly logging off but there is no reason for this praise to be dispersed. Since the author uses so many rhetorical appeals, he gets his point across well and most likely influences the opinions of his

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