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Ian Howerton

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  • Sure, you can unfollow, unsubscribe, de-link or tune people out. “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,” Andy Borowitz
    • Ian Howerton
       
      Borowitz is a naysayer in this situation. The author combats him in the next paragraph by quoting someone to support her claim.
Ian Howerton

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  • said Mark Bauerlein, author of “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.”
    • Ian Howerton
       
      Yeah this article isn't biased at all.
Ian Howerton

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  • A Google spokesman asserts that the program is designed to combat “the faceless Web.” The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • Ian Howerton
       
      The Naysayer is Google, the author responds in the next paragraph with her "witty" statement countering the idea of the faceless web.
Juan Mayen

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    • Juan Mayen
       
      Naysayer, Pamela is recognizing that some people might say that this can be amusing or annoying. With Pamela writing this specific passage, this passage helps her expand upon other aspect such as the, "it can also be hurtful."
Juan Mayen

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    • Chris Melendez
       
      Here from the very beginning, Pamela is a naysayer. She introduces the fact that people seem to believe that others want to know what is going on in their lives. Social media, or even communication itself is full of information that she and I wouldn't want to hear. Pamela implies that people do think that people care and this is to say that people don't care or need to know about everything going on in their lives. 
  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • Chris Melendez
       
      Colby Hall is a naysayer in this part of the article but in a yes but sense. She states that the people she knows in Kansas are dear sweet people but sees them depressed when she gets a notification on facebook. This is saying that she likes the way we are all connected through social media and have the power to just use a click send to stay connected but the send button is being misused at too much unnecessary information is being sent such as farmville requests. I know I get annoyed when a notification is just a request to cut my neighbors grass. She is naysaying about how we need to share even the smallest changes in our lives as though people care. 
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    • Juan Mayen
       
      Pamela also takes lightly the comment the google spokesman said by jumping with her phrase "The faceless Web, seriously?" In my opinion that is considered informal and briefly mocks what has been stated.
  • The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • Chris Melendez
       
      Pamela is naysayer in this part since the claim is that in the web, we are too hidden in a sense. However, Pamela claims that we are too connected in the web.
  • Even if we like a person, we don’t necessarily like — or even “like” — what we find out about them online.
  • “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,
    • Juan Mayen
       
      Naysayer! Pamela is quoting somebody and by that she is also pointing out what somebody might speak against. Which in this case the perceived argument from anyone can be "Hey at least you can block them out of your fb, twitter, etc"
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    A Google spokesman asserts that the program is designed to combat "the faceless Web." - Here Pamela is pointing at a naysayer because what the google spoke's women goes in the exact opposite direction Pamela is trying to lear her article too. Pamela previously states that there is too much internet interactivity and that people continuously see other people's lives(and therefore faces too), she gives it a tone in a way that it seem that this social media is going to drive her crazy.
Kevin Gardner

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    • Kevin Gardner
       
      Here, Pamela Paul is positioning the google spokesperson (who is a proponent of the new type of google search) as a naysayer to her argument that that our ever increasing connectedness to past relationships by way of social media is a curse and not a blessing. She deals with this opposition by mocking the notion of "the faceless web" and asserts that we have the exact opposite problem. She obviously does not take the google spokespersons position seriously because she twists it in her summary with the yellow bikini anecdote.
Constance Critchlow

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  • The whole system is giving very ambitious people much less chance to reinvent themselves,” said Jaron Lanier, author of “You Are Not a Gadget,” and the change is less dramatic. Who would Bob Dylan end up as, he wondered, if Zimmerman were there with him the whole time?
    • kandice miller
       
      Jaron Lanier is a naysayer, who makes a very valid point. Social media getting into our heads, and not in a good way. It's slowly but surely turning our world into self conscience creeps. Lanier's comment about Bob Dylan makes me think that the reason for his success had to do with the fact that, "he did him." His unique style made him who he was as an artist. Could we be just as unique without the constant thought of what our "friends" on facebook or twitter would think?
  • What does this mean for our own data spills? “Honestly, I’m more worried about people finding out stuff about me,” said Jill Soloway, a comedian and TV writer and producer. “A lot of times I’ll post things like, ‘Let’s organize a hipster Jewish Shabbat!’ and then I think, what if businesspeople think I’m this religious Jewish person now? Something that seems fun and silly to me might seem really weird to a co-worker.
Alejandra Gallo

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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • Alejandra Gallo
       
      Here the author identifies Colby Hall as a naysayer. In this case, because he first states about the people in Kansas being sweet people and then says something about people in 'Farmville' asking you to feed the cows.
nakins

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  • “I had to go on a vacation-photo diet,” admitted Laura Zigman, a novelist. “I had this bizarre, voyeuristic habit of scrolling through people’s travel photos online and then feeling like, ‘Why haven’t I walked the Great Wall of China?’ And guilt: ‘I should be taking my son to Spain.’ I don’t even like to travel!”
    • nakins
       
      Zigman, a naysayer, who doesn't even like travelling makes a concession, saying that she was roped into wanting to vacation like many of her online friends, because her friends had done it. 
  • Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and author of “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other,” spoke of the effects. “People pay a psychological price for seeing information about former friends and spouses and colleagues that they really shouldn’t be seeing,” she said. It’s not good for our emotional health and, she said, “it makes people feel bad because they know they shouldn’t look at this stuff — but they can’t help it!”
    • nakins
       
      Turkle is a naysayer, believing that people should not be lookning at other peoples information in the way that they do. She finds that people often have a negative emotional feedback from "creeping" on other's online life because they know that they shouldn't, but she also points out that people just can't help looking at it.
  • “People will post things on my Facebook walls — political statements that are just strange — religious rants that don’t reflect my values,” said Adam Werbach, chief sustainability officer at Saatchi & Saatchi. “I feel like I’ve got to scrub it off like a graffiti squeegee man.” But while other peoples’ unsolicited information can be amusing or annoying, it can also be hurtful.
    • nakins
       
      The author seems to be kind of disagreeing with Werbach by making the argument that while in some cases you are able to just remove little things from your online profile, the kind of things you find amusing at the time, there are some pieces of your information that aren't so easily removed online. Therefore, those pieces of information can really hurt someone in some way.
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  • “For most of my life, I’d encounter people and then they’d be gone,” said Caitlin Flanagan, the cultural critic. “You’d have to go to a major library and pore through phone books or hire a private detective to track them down.” Now it’s way too easy. “You can get this instant download and find out their whole life story and download all their pictures,” she said. “But then you’re like, ‘That’s enough of that person.’ ”
    • nakins
       
      Flanagan is a naysayer here. She begins by making the point that before online profiles you would have had to literally search for a person, but now you're able to find them online and instantly get tired of that person. She feels that is "too easy" to find them now and get so much of their life so fast.
kandice miller

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  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
    • nakins
       
      Ms. Crosley is a naysayer. She disagrees that there is an online escape for many, because they choose to find what they are trying to avoid. Even though you can ignore someones updates, you can still get to a point that you crave the information and desire to search it out on their pages. 
  • “There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, a novelist. “It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.
    • nakins
       
      Houston is a naysayer, she disagrees that a suggest online friend could become an online friend. The anticipated online persona and the person alone would only have a negative impact on her mood for the day.
  • The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • nakins
       
      The author here is a naysayer, disagreeing with the information relayed by the Google spokesman. Instead of seeing the information of the Google plus members being well integrated into the Web in a productive manner, Paul finds that it would just be a negative addition adding more unnecessary "faces" to the "faceless Web."
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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • nakins
       
      Colby Hall is a naysayer here, that agrees with the opening paragraphs of the author, that there is just too much unnecessary things going on online being relayed by friends. In Hall's case, it the "dear" old friends asking you to help out in a ridiculous online game you don't care about.
  • Sure, you can unfollow, unsubscribe, de-link or tune people out. “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,” Andy Borowitz, a humorist, “shared” in an e-mail. “The only equivalent option in the real world is strangulation.”
    • kandice miller
       
      Andy Borowitz is a naysayer because he is stating the fact that social networks give someone the ability to block another person. Which would get rid of their problem of always having to see what they were doing. 
Paige Colman

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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • Paige Colman
       
      The author decides Colby Hall as a naysayer. This is predominately due to Hall's opinion towards the use of "Farmville" as communication.
  • “If the F.B.I. came and ransacked my computer, they’d be like: ‘What is your obsession with this person from sixth grade? Why have you looked at her picture a million times?’ ” said Julie Klam, whose next book, “Friendkeeping,” is about actual friendships.
    • Paige Colman
       
      Klam is a naysayer, do to her underlying idea that people are overly obsessive with the use of social media to contact people.
Christian Burge

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  • My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • zjackson1
       
      The author describes Colby Hall as a naysayer. Because Colby says his friends from Kansas are sweet people but says nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.
    • Paige Colman
       
      The author decides Colby Hall as a naysayer. This is predominately due to Hall's opinion towards the use of "Farmville" as communication.
  • “There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, a novelist. “It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.”
    • zjackson1
       
      Pam Houston is considered a naysayer. Pam says that theres that one person that pops up on the People You May Know box on Facebook and the suggestion of that person changes her whole day. She says its essential to her well being to just think the person doesnt exist. 
    • Loghan Hastings
       
      I agree with Zach, Pam Houston is a naysayer, it becomes very apparent especially when it comes to her sentence,"There's one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day." However she is just one of the many naysayers in this article.
    • Paige Colman
       
      Houston is a naysayer because of her opinions on the "People You May Know" feature on Facebook.
  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
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    • Christian Burge
       
      In this case, I think the author is the naysayer. They are openly disagreeing with the Google spokesman.
  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
    • Loghan Hastings
       
      I also agree that Crosley is the naysayer here, but she has very flawed logic. If you don't want to hear about people then why get on Facebook? That's like going to a resterant and not wanting to see people eating.
    • Christian Burge
       
      Ms. Crosley is the naysayer here. She believes that even if you try to ignore people online or take steps to remove them from your page, you will still end up finding them anyway, so really there is no way to avoid people online.
    • Paige Colman
       
      Ms. Crosley is a naysayer do to her concept of inevitable social media interaction that she presents.
nakins

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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • nakins
       
      Colby Hall, as the naysayer, is objecting to the overload of too much information that comes from old friends in Kansas. This naysaying points agrees with the overall argument that Paul is making about there just being too much unnecessary information shared.
  • The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • nakins
       
      The author, Paul, is the naysayer. Here she makes an informal objection to the idea the Google spokesman presented, believing the Web already has enough "faces" in "the faceless Web," and not much of what Google Plus members can add will attribute to the Web productively. 
  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
    • nakins
       
      Ms. Crosley is a naysayer here, disagreeing with the idea that you can hide out online from the people that you are trying to ignore. Instead of just ignoring them, she argues that you can end up searching to find the information that you try so hard to avoid. Because you know that it is still there online.
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  • “There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, a novelist. “It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.” Even if we like a person, we don’t necessarily like — or even “like” — what we find out about them online.
    • nakins
       
      Here, the author and Pam Houston are both naysayers. Houston disagrees in needing to friend the suggest person she could know, because she knows how that person messes with her mood. While the author feels that even when you might actually like a person in reality, the person they are online may not be a person you like, because of what you find out online.
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