I always get the best advice from users on this forum, the majority coming from all walks of life and different professions. So here I am again, asking for advice. I pretty much have my paper more or less typed up, but Im missing a thesis statement. I find it hard to just blatantly say Im going to be talking about this, this, and this, as it seems it goes against everything I have learned when it comes to good writing. So the topic is social media and how it affects your privacy. My main argument is that people are throwing out personal information into cyber space which has led to disruptions in relationships and divorces, identity theft, and removal from jobs. However, Im not sure how to go about writing the thesis statement to blatantly say, my paper is about_______ (what I just said). Any advice? I know what a thesis statement is, I just cant seem to go about writing it in a way that doesn't sound like a 9 year old is writing a paper (This is about my dog, who is brown, fun, and old).
It's a bit choppy, but try something like this: Perhaps one of the greatest innovations of the past decade has been the advent of social networking. Today, one can reconnect with a long-lost friend, share photos and video, even carrying out their day-to-day relationships online. Yet, the advantages of social networking come with a price, privacy...
Social Media has rapidly altered our traditional understanding of relationships and personal information, making it difficult for users to fully comprehend the consequences of a world where the private is now public. Or something.
Much has been made of the growth of social media and its impact on society. The impact is widely seen as positive by the general public, a perception driven in part by the social media itself, but as social media in all its forms has grown, an argument can be made that there has been a corresponding diminishing of personal privacy. This paper will explore... ...and so on. Good luck.
Social media interfaces (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Google+, et al) have, in their rapidly expanding role/prominence in our quotidian existence, provided new means by which we, social creatures that we are, now find ourselves increasingly reliant for the maintenance of such ties as bind us to the persons of our collective past and present, from all spheres of our experience: personal, familial, and professional connections being, in the course of human events, necessary components of such korbanot as are most appropriate for the upkeep of that most ornate and sacred of all temples: the human mind; nonetheless, it seems that, had the Bard written, "why people be postin they ish it saturday i dont give a **** about your drama," the point would have been well taken, so this essay is about the internet is good mostly but sometimes it's a bad idea.
I can help you but I don't think I can write your thesis statement without knowing your content. You said you have your paper pretty much done... so... let's see it... post it here in text only. I hope it's not due today.
There is a reason you find it hard... you don't say "I am going to write about".... you imply it by making THIRD-PERSON statements. It says what your paper is about but you don't word it that way. How would you sum up your paper in a sentence to someone? That's all a thesis is. Just chop out the part where you talk about yourself.
