P. 80 Prompt

Leah Nieman

English 101 – 5:30

Sonia Begert

11/18/15

Salon Article Analysis:

“Spare us your French flag filter: The self-indulgent social media performance doesn’t help anyone”

            An article published by Salon and written by Paula Young Lee talks and takes a position on how the new French flag filter promoted by Facebook to update your profile photo in remembrance of the tragedy in Paris is rooted in self-appraisal. She starts out by telling us about her Facebook profile photo and then clearly states, “It has not been French-flagified on Facebook. I am not about to change it.” She then tells us a little about her background and family. She inform us about how her niece is half French, and that her brother-in-law is from France. Since Paula’s extended family is French, they have experienced much grief towards the disaster that happened on the night of November 13^th.

            She then informs us of the ridiculousness of putting the filter of the French flag over your profile photo. Lee says that filtering your photo is, “…self-involvement masquerading as empathy for others.” She then enlightens us on the bombings and shootings that happen every day in Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, and many other places, and we as a country do not promote anything like the French filter for those unfortunate occurrences. Paula then concludes by telling us to do whatever we would like to on our Facebook profile pictures, but that it does nothing to help France and that it only makes yourself look good for others to see. 

*will be hand-written annotation* 

Works Cited:
Paula Young Lee "Spare us your French flag filter: The self-indulgent social media performance doesn’t help anyone" Salon Nov. 16 2015. Web. Nov. 18 2015.