Rhetorical Analysis Of How Twitter Fuels Anxiety

Laura Turner the author of the article, “How Twitter Fuels Anxiety,” main argument is that twitter creates a lot of anxiety, “And as a lifelong sufferer of anxiety, using Twitter is also making my anxiety worse” (Turner 1). Turner uses anecdotes, pathos, logos and uses profound quotations from other researchers to make her argument strong. Turner uses her experience and knowledge about twitter to show to the audience how twitter can be dangerous to people who already have anxiety. Turner surveys people on twitter about anxiety to prove her argument, “Many Twitter users I surveyed cited feeling powerless in the face of overwhelming fear as one of the biggest causes of their anxiety” (Turner). Turner’s audience is toward the young generation, the generation who are on twitter every day and every moment they are awake. Turner wants to let them know that twitter fuels …show more content…
Turner let us know that she became a member of twitter in 2009. She already was diagnosed with anxiety, but she wanted to know if twitter fueled her anxiety more. Turner said, “And as a lifelong sufferer of anxiety, using Twitter is also making my anxiety worse,” proving that anxiety is triggered by twitter. Turner also uses stories from the world by saying, “The cycle of anxiety on Twitter use can be especially bad for women, non-binary and queer people, and people of color,” Turner knows that those groups of people are constantly harassed online causing anxiety. Here are some of Turner’s statistics that she used to prove her argument to the audience, ” A 2014 Pew study shows that 25 percent of women ages 18–24 have been sexually harassed online (as opposed to 13 percent of young men), and 23 percent have been physically threatened. Fifty-one percent of African-American and 54 percent of Hispanic internet users had experienced some form of harassment online, as opposed to 34 percent of white internet users,”