What Advice Do You Have for Younger Kids About Navigating Social Media?. In “Seven Ways Parents Can Help 13-Year-Olds Start Their Social Media Lives Right,” KJ Dell’Antonia writes: Thirt
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Navigating Social Media?
How old were you when you first got on Facebook,
Instagram or any other social network?
What mistakes did you make? What did you learn from
them? What advice would you give a younger sibling who is just
getting started? Why?
In “Seven Ways Parents Can Help 13-Year-Olds Start Their
Social Media Lives Right,” KJ Dell’Antonia writes:
Thirteen-year-olds who are already on social media spend a
lot of time there, living their social lives both online and off
CNN’s new documentary, “Being 13,” and an accompanying1
report, “Being Thirteen: Social Media and the Hidden World of
Young Adolescents2’ Peer Culture,” reveal3 an entire world of just
barely teenage posting, commenting, jockeying4 and, most of all,
lurking on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
While not every 13-year-old is on social media, or wants to
be, many are Fifty-seven percent of 13- and 14-year-olds use
Facebook, 44 percent use Instagram, and 21 percent use Twitter,
according to the Pew Research Center And as 13-year-olds begin
to mix social media into their lives, they open a window into the
carefully curated5 lives of their classmates Many are delighted by
that additional connection, but even the most socially deft
teenagers can feel left out of pictured fun6 that doesn’t include
them, get caught up in online conflict, or feel slighted by a lack of
appreciation of their posts For young teenagers who are
experiencing less offline social success, the online world can
exacerbate7 their difficulties
… These teenagers, at the youngest end of the spectrum8,
valued their online connectedness but also described in more detail
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much of that impact, even when negative, appears to be
short-lived9 (researchers found no meaningful associations between
involvement with social media and psychological adjustment),
many of the individual comments and behaviors from teenagers
suggested that social media had great power to affect their
day-to-day emotions in ways a parent might regard with suspicion10 One
child said she took 100 to 200 pictures of herself to get a good
selfie; another regularly posted images on Instagram seeking
specific forms of approval only to receive silence in return Many
spent hours scrolling through the images of their peers’ lives
online
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Source: The New Work Times
Questions:
1 What do you remember about your first
experiences on social media? Were they
more positive or negative? What did you
learn early on? How?
2 Do you agree that the online world
exacerbates difficulties for young people
who are having trouble socially? What
advice would you give those students in
particular?
3 How much did or do your parents “lurk”
on your social media? Do you agree with
the advice given in the article that parents
should lurk initially, but not comment or
otherwise be a real presence there?
4 Are there important lessons to be learned
from making mistakes on social media?
To what extent do you think parents
Comments:
As an older woman and Mom, social media didn’t exist in my time My advise to young children would be not to engage in social media until they are old enough and mature enough to understand the dangers that can occur I realize my answer will not
be popular but there’s been too many fatal occurrences involving children and the internet over the past years
There’s been a rise in missing children and child sex trafficking all due mostly to the internet Parents today need to
be proactive in what they are allowing their children to do while on their computers and cellphones I know you can’t watch children every minute of the day but as parents you have to keep your eyes on your prize:YOUR CHILDREN
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do something that seems like a mistake?
5 What do you think of the advice in this
article? Do you agree? What would you
add?
Useful Vocabulary:
1 accompanying (adj)
/əˈkʌm.pə.ni.ɪŋ/
appearing or going with
someone or something
else
=> đi kèm, kèm theo
2 Adolescent (n)
/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/
C2: a young person who
is developing into an
adult
=> người ở độ tuổi vị
thành niên
3 reveal (v)
/rɪˈviːl/
C2 : to allow something
to be seen that, until then,
had been hidden
=> tiết lộ
4 jockey (v)
/ˈdʒɒk.i/
jockey for something
5 curate (v) /kjʊəˈreɪt/
to select things such as documents, music, products, or internet content to be included as part of a list or collection,
or on a website
=> thu thập (thông tin)
6 out of the picture (idm) not important to or not involved in a situation
=> không quan trọng/không liên quan
7 exacerbate (n) /ɪɡˈzæs·ərˌbeɪt/
to make something that is already bad worse
=> khiến cho trầm trọng hơn
8 spectrum (n) /ˈspek.trəm/
C1 : a range of different positions, opinions, etc between two extreme points
=> quang phổ (nhưng ở đây
là nghĩa bóng, chỉ một loạt các lựa chọn khác nhau giữa
2 cực điểm)
9 short-lived (adj) /ˌʃɔːtˈlɪvd/
lasting only for a brief time
=> chỉ tổn tại trong thời gian ngắn
10 suspicion (n) /səˈspɪʃ.ən/
a belief or idea that something may be true
=> sự nghi ngờ
11 intervene (v) /ˌɪn.təˈviːn/
C2 : to intentionally become involved in a difficult
Trang 4to attempt to obtain power
or get into a more
advantageous position
than other people by
using any methods you
can
=> cố gắng chiếm lấy lợi
thế bằng mọi cách
situation in order to improve
it or prevent it from getting worse
=> can thiệp để giải quyết vấn đề
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