Adam Bulger

Bored of Bulger After reading Adam Bulger’s piece, “How addictive is social media, really?” on BTRtoday.com, I found myself feeling disoriented and confused. His article is filled with empty allegations, statements oozing with bitterness, and references to a few random pop culture references (Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man”, and “Black Mirror”) which required me to fire up the Google machine. Allow me to analyze this article, and save you the headache of reading it. Bulger relies, on more than one occasion, how people look while participating in social media; in paragraph two, he likens the “real face of a social media user”, to that of a man-eating bear in Werner Herzog’s documentary “Grizzly Man”. He once again touches on this in paragraph seven, when he compares the faces of strangers looking at their phones to “endless waves of dead eyed staring and mechanically dragged and tapping a screen blankly and grudgingly tapping a screen.” Aside from the grammatical atrocities, the article insults multiple different groups without any basis: insinuating that Silicon Valley developers are just “tech dudes” with bad intentions, yet without …show more content…
While the title screams “clickbait”, I read it, and could not help finding myself captivated by the piece. Well written and intriguing, it is relatable and thought provoking. It focuses on a former Google and Facebook employee, Justin Rosenstein, who has taken extreme measures to “restrict his use of social media and other addictive technologies”. I cannot help but assess my own usage of social media after reading the article; if someone who has had a hand in working at Facebook feels the need to cut back, maybe I should as well. I would enjoy reading a counter article that was as provocative as Lewis’s. Unfortunately, Bulger’s fell short of that for