Blog 5

I chose the article "Miss G.: A Case of Internet Addiction", written by Virginia Huffington, in the opinion pages of the The New York Times.  In this article Huffington questions Dr. Young's evaluation on internet addiction.  Huffington uses Gabriela, a 20 year old college student, as an example to prove her point.  Huffington states that after Gabriela took Dr. Young's self evaluation test, she considered herself an internet addict.  The author argues that just becausse Gabriela prefers logic quizes, music, graphic novels and trivia quizes online this does not make Gabriela an internet addict.

This is definately an important topic for the audience since we use the internet in our daily lives.  Huffington appeals to ethos to connect with her adience.  The author states that even though Gabriela uses the internet throughout the whole day she doesn't use it in ways that will affect her life in any negative ways.  On the contrary she states Gabriela gets good grades and that even she would be proud to have Gabriela as a daughter.  Huffington's argument seems fair to the reader since she does bring in information and facts on Dr. Young's self evaluation.