1-27-20 Should There be real world consequences of what someone posts on social

media?

I. Introduction

A. Thesis: While many people might think that posting things on social media is their
personal life and should not affect their consequences at school or work, there should be
consequences because they might be offending someone and the post might expose a
picture that is not supposed to be seen.

II. Counterclaim:Social media is good because it lets you communicate with other people
around the world also if you are not doing anything inappropriate you should be able to
have your personal life.

A. Counterpoint A:Social media is a great system to communicate with people all around
the world.

B. Direct quotation to refute counter point A:” Social media is great for staying connected
with family and friends and to share interesting and important aspects of our lives.”

C. Counter point B:You should be able to have a personal life as long as you stay
appropriate.

D. Direct quotation to refute counter point B:”It is useful to all categories of people while in
some instances, it has proven to be detrimental. As long as you are grounded as a human being
and use social media for the good and not the bad, you will probably not fall victim to the cons.”

III. Claim:There should be consequences because people might be offending someone on

social media and posts might expose something that should not be out in the world.

A. Point A:Some people post things on social media that offend other people.

B. Direct quotation to support point A: ”Believe it or not, this is at the lower end of the scale of
what can happen if you post impulsively on social media. Most people have said something
stupid that has caused them embarrassment. The difference is in the real world people tend to
forget about it.”
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media?

C. Point B:Some pictures can be exposed.

D. Direct quotation to support point B:” Four students who posed for photos with a human
placenta have been kicked out of a suburban Kansas City nursing program after one of the
pictures was posted on Facebook.”

*Repeat the point / support pattern as many times as necessary to effectively develop your
point.

**You may have multiple paragraphs to support your claim. Follow the same pattern for
each new paragraph.

IV. Conclusion

A. State the claim in a new way:There Should be real world consequences from what some
people posts on social media Because so many people get affected everyday because of
those inappropriate posts and people post pictures that expose people in a wrong way.

B. Remind the audience why this issue matters:If we were to think of how many people are
affected from mean offending posts there would be alot, not only that there is so much more
than just that and that is definitely something that should change.