Your Social Life By Pamela Haag Summary

In the essay Pamela Haag wrote “Your Social Life: Are You a Fox or a Hedgehog?” she tells the tale of the fox and the hedgehog and she says that they are a moral fable for today social life. She gave good examples on why they are connected to social life. In paragraph one she gave her readers a bit of background on the fox and the hedgehog: “The ancient Greek poet Archilochus said that the fox knows many things about a little, but the hedgehog knows one big thing…” what this quote was saying was that foxes only know the littlest things and hedgehog know the big and main parts. In paragraph two Hagg talks about what the Hedgehog represents and in paragraph three she talks about what the fox represents: “The hedgehog social life, which is what I think I grew up with, is one where you …show more content…
Haag talks about Facebook in this essay, which I believe connect with the reader more because there are a number amount of people who uses Facebook. In paragraph seven through thirteen Hagg talks about how people who uses Facebook are like fox. She wrote “…I’m not wedded to this hypothesis, it seems to be inclining us toward the fox social life… Facebook can satiate my social appetite in ways that somewhat trouble me…. I spent two hours Facebook-mesmerized, scrolling up and down my wall, liking random comments, reading others, writing some and then seeing who might have liked mine and all the rest… My point is that the fox social life might corrode the imperative of having the hedgehog social life, assuming a zero sum game of social energy.” What she is trying to say that fox live gives trouble to a hedgehog life. Like Facebook, a person can have many friends on it, but may know so little about them or know nothing about them at all, which is a fox social life. Because many people uses social media, they have lesser time with the people they care about and will drift apart from their