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Research shows that for students, specific ways of using Facebook – not use of it in general – correlate1 with some real-life behaviors like participating in extracurricular2 activities

05 How Do You Use Facebook?

Research shows that for students, specific ways of using

Facebook – not use of it in general – correlate1 with some real-life

behaviors like participating in extracurricular2 activities and even

with academic achievement How do you tend to use Facebook, if

at all? Do you think the ways you use it are reflected in other areas

of your life?

New research suggests that how students use Facebook is

correlated with other behaviors like participation in

extra-curricular activities as well as with academic achievement

Meanwhile, a New York Times Magazine article by Emily

Bazelon discussed some concerns that have cropped up3 about

Facebook’s functionality4 when it comes to its younger users:

We don’t really know yet how joining Facebook at a tender5

age affects kids socially and emotionally There’s the fun and

freedom of Facebook, and then there’s the Consumer Reports

finding that the site exposed a million teenagers to bullying and

harassment6 last year What is clear is that Facebook thinks it

needs access to kids’ lives in order to continue to dominate its

industry The younger the child, the greater the opportunity to

build brand loyalty that might transcend7 the next social-media

trend And crucially, signing up kids early can accustom them to

“sharing” with the big audiences that are at their small fingertips8

Increasingly, Facebook is staking its future relevance9 and

profits on this idea of sharing, which it made “frictionless10” in late

September With certain apps on Facebook, like Spotify, you can

choose to enable a feature where everyone can see what you’re

listening to or viewing, without your hitting another key Before

rolling out11 frictionless sharing, Facebook emphasized that it is

now easier to see what your default12 settings are But the company

refuses to change those settings so that the default would establish

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more privacy, no doubt13 because it affects Facebook’s bottom

line

The more people you’re connected to on the site and the more

“likes” you post, the more ads can be personalized — hey, buy

these shoes because your three friends did! — and the more

potential14 advertising dollars can be generated Facebook

encourages widespread15 sharing by making the default settings for

an adult’s Facebook page public to all The site has made a

concession16 when it comes to teenagers: the default setting allows

basic personal information (name, networks, photo) to be public,

while posts are shared with Facebook friends and also the friends

of those friends My son is too young to be on Facebook, but

imagine that after his bar mitzvah17, he posts photos of it Along

with the 300 people he knows, he could have an audience of 1,000

or more friends of friends he doesn’t

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Source: The New Work Times

Questions:

1 What do you usually do on Facebook?

2 How much time do you usually spend on

it in a typical day?

3 Do you ever worry about your privacy or

take steps to protect it?

4 Do you often multitask18, switching19

between using Facebook and doing

homework or studying?

5 What do you think about the findings

about how specific activities on

Facebook, like posting and viewing

photos, correlate with things like grades

and engagement in student activities?

6 Do these findings apply to you?

Comments:

I use facebook, like must teenagers I check facebook to see what my friends are

up to and to talk to my friends that do not have cell phones While on facebook I usually switch back and forth between sites while doing homework I feel safe on facebook and change my privacy settings so that I am hidden from people I do not know

On facebook I only friend or accept people I talk to or know personally This protects me from other people seeing me that I do not know Facebook does have issues with bullying as well as all social media sites Schools have bullying issues as well Bullying is everywhere, and it is up to

the users or student to be responsible enough to report bullying or not be a bully themself

Useful Vocabulary:

1 Correlate (v)

/ˈkɒrəleɪt/

to show that there is a

close connection between

two or more facts, figures

=> tương quan (có liên

hệ, dính líu tới nhau)

2 Extracurricular (adj)

/ˌekstrəkəˈrɪkjələ(r)/

not part of the usual

course of work or studies

at a school or college

=> extracurricular

activities: hoạt động ngoại

khóa

3 Crop up (phrasal verb)

/krɒp/

to appear or happen

unexpectedly

=> xuất hiện ngoài ý

muốn

4 Functionality (n)

/ˌfʌŋkʃəˈnæləti/

the quality of being

useful, practical, and right

8 at your fingertips (idiom)

/ˈfɪŋ·ɡərˌtɪp/

If you have information at your fingertips, you can get it and use it very easily

=> nắm trong tay

9 Relevance (n) /ˈrel.ə.vəns/

the degree to which sth related or useful to what is happening/being talked abt

=> sự liên quan

10 Frictionless (adj) /ˈfrɪkʃnləs/

happening very easily without anything to make

it slower or more difficult

=> không ma sát => trơn tru dễ dàng

14 Potential (adj) /pəˈtenʃl/

able to develop into sth in the future when the necessary conditions exist

=> có tiềm năng (phát triển)

15 Widespread (a) /ˈwaɪdspred/

existing or happening in many places and/or among many people

=> (phổ biến) rộng rãi

16 Concession (n) /kənˈseʃn/

something that is allowed or given up, often in order to end a disagreement, or the act

of allowing or giving

=> sự nhượng bộ

17 Bar mitzvah (n) /ˌbɑː ˈmɪtsvə/

a Jewish ceremony held to celebrate a boy reaching the age of 13, in which he is given the religious

for the purpose for which

something was made

=> tính phù hợp/có

ích/thực tế

5 Tender (a)

C2: young

=> tender age: còn non trẻ

(tuổi tác)

6 Harassment (n)

/ˈhærəsmənt/

C1: behaviour that annoys

or upsets someone

=> quấy rối

7 Transcend (v)

/trænˈsend/

to go further, or be more

important or better than

something, especially

limit

=> vượt qua

11 Roll out (phrasal verb)

to make a new product, service, or system available for the first time

=> tung ra (sản phẩm) (lần đầu tiên có mặt trên thị trường)

12 Default (n) /dɪˈfɔːlt/

a standard setting esp of computer software, such

as of type size or style

=> (cài đặt) mặc định

13 No doubt /daʊt/

C1: used to emphasize that what you are saying

is true or likely to happen

=> chắc chắn/không còn nghi ngờ

responsibilities and duties of

an adult man

=> tên một buổi lễ của người

Do Thái cho các cậu bé 13 tuổi được giao trách nhiệm và nghĩa vụ tôn giáo của một người đàn ông trưởng thành

18 Multitask (v) /ˌmʌltiˈtɑːsk/

to do more than one thing at a time

=> làm đồng thời nhiều việc

19 Switch (v) /swɪtʃ/

B2: to change suddenly or completely, especially from one thing to another, or to exchange by replacing one person or thing with another

=> chuyển đổi qua lại

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