Farhad Manjoo’s essay, "Do I Really Have To Join Twitter?" effectively delivers a plea to the audience for social networking. This essay gets the reader to ask him/herself a very good question: Do I really have to join twitter? People now-a-days tend to go with the flow, and hop on the popular band wagon. It is very easy to get lost in someone else’s world. Manjoo states that Twitter is a micro blog you can create to gain followers. “You can follow my posts, but I don't have to follow yours.” (Page 164) Twitter is almost like a gimmick and discouragement. No matter how clever or interesting your tweets are, you are more likely not to have as much followers as a popular celebrity who rarely tweets. As a reader, it looks like Twitter is much more of a fad than something here to stay. Alexis Madrigal’s essay "Take the Data out of Dating" is a more effective essay. Although Manjoo‘s essay made good points, Madrigal’s essay states more relevant facts. Online dating is something that is here to stay. We as people have become so busy in our everyday life, it is extremely hard to meet others and engage on a personal level. “OkCupid, which according to The Boston Globe aspires to be the Google of online dating.” (Page 165) OKCupid is the top dating website, which means it has the most matches, and that draws users to the site. Even though Madrigal thinks the algorithm OkCupid uses to make matches isn't the best way to go about it, Yagan, the co-founder of OkCupid, find it very useful. Algorithms are made to restrict the amount of information the user sees. Twitter, a social network that has an alien form of communication is much more of a fad. People are going to slowly but surely stop using it because of the limit of characters you can use. Although Twitter is a very different type of social network, users are going to want more than a one way connection. Although online dating is not traditional yet, it is quickly becomin