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Summary Of Turn Off Messenger Kids By Cecilia Kang

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In a recent article "Turn Off Messenger Kids, Health Experts Plead to Facebook", from New York Times the author, Cecilia Kang, discusses the concerns of pediatric and mental health experts in response to Facebook's new creation. Facebook has created a new application for the younger generation called "Messenger Kids". In the app, children have the ability to take selfies, group text, and even video chat. As Kang discusses the concerns of health experts, she remains unbiased and tells Facebook's response to the allegations of their app being harmful to the younger generation. The article, "Turn Off Messenger Kids, Health Experts Plead to Facebook" is somewhat rhetorically effective because the author includes detailed information from credible …show more content…

Kang is credible because she remains unbiased and cites scholarly sources. She uses credible resources for both sides. For example, she cites Micheal Brody, a former chairman of the media committee of the AOCAA, and then states Facebook consulted with National PTA and several academics and families before introducing the app. Cecilia Kang may not be a health expert herself, but she uses credible sources to successfully achieve her goal. As claimed by Kang "At the age 6, a child is full of imagination and may not distinguish reality from fantasy… she doesn't understand privacy." This highlights how Kang appeals to the reader's emotions by saying that children as young as 6, do not know the proper way social media works and do not fully grasp right from wrong. Kang successfully uses pathos to demonstrate how children should not be exposed to social media prematurely. While ethos and pathos were used by the author, logos was used as well. Cecilia Kang uses logos to give facts about how Messenger Kids is a negative contribution to young children. As claimed by health experts "A growing of research demonstrates that excessive use of social media is harmful to children… and undermines children's healthy development." This quote is effective because it shows that the app may expose young children to inappropriate things. The author used logos to show how the app has a negative effect on children. Kang also successfully achieves her goal of showing evidence of how the app is harmful to young

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