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Teenagers migrate from Facebook as parents send them friend requests.
Facebook is ‘dead and buried’ for older teenagers, an extensive European study has found, as this age group moves on to Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Researching the Facebook use of 16-18 year olds in eight EU countries, the Global Social Media Impact Study found that as parents and older users saturate Facebook, its younger users are moving to alternative platforms. ‘Facebook is not just on the slide - it is basically dead and buried,’ wrote Daniel Miller, lead anthropologist on the research team, who is professor of material culture at University College London. ‘Mostly they feel embarrassed to even be associated with it. Where once parents worried about their children joining Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists they stay there to post about their lives.’ Teens do not care that alternative services are less functional and sophisticated, and they are also unconcerned about how information about them is being used commercially or by the security services, the research found. ‘What appears to be the most crucial moment in a young person’s decision to leave Facebook was surely that dreaded day your mum sends you a friend request,’ wrote Miller. ‘It is nothing new that young people care about style and status in relation to their peers, and Facebook is simply not cool anymore.’ In part of the study’s research with Italian Facebook users, 40% of users had never changed their privacy settings and 80% said they ‘were not concerned or did not care’ if their personal data was available and accessed, either by an organisation or an individual. A Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?
Identify the part of the text that supports your answer by copying the exact passage.
1 In general, Facebook is becoming old-fashioned.
2 Teenagers don’t want to continue on Facebook when their parents want to become their friends.
B Answer the following questions using your own words but taking into account the information in the text.
1 What are teenagers not concerned about?
2 What were the conclusions obtained from the research carried out with Italian Facebook users?
C Find words in the text that mean: 1 fill up completely so it is difficult to use (paragraph 1)
2 a group of people who work together (paragraph 2)
3 extremely important (paragraph 3)
4 that you can get or obtain (adj) (paragraph 3)
D Complete the second sentence. It must mean the same as the first sentence.
1 Facebook became very popular ten years ago. It is still very popular. Facebook
2 Facebook is not as popular as WhatsApp. WhatsApp
3 The team worked for many months. The members knew each other very well.
The team,
1 According to the text,
A Facebook is as popular as it was in the past. B nowadays Facebook is less popular among teenagers. C parents and users love Facebook. D Facebook users are usually between 16 to 18.
2 Daniel Miller A is the leader of the research team. B was the leader of the research team. C was professor at University College London. D believes in the family.
3 Children claim A parents insist on being informed. B parents worry too much. C parents were worried about them joining Facebook. D they need space.
4 Teenagers A don’t care about style and status. B don’t care about what is done with the information they give. C like to make commercial use of their information. D are frightened of security services.
5 According to the research with Italian Facebook users, A the vast majority had never changed their privacy settings. B less than half didn’t care about their privacy settings. C the vast majority changed their privacy settings. D the vast majority were not concerned about their privacy settings
13 квітня
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Teenagers migrate from Facebook as parents send them friend requests.
Facebook is ‘dead and buried’ for older teenagers, an extensive European study has found, as this age group moves on to Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Researching the Facebook use of 16-18 year olds in eight EU countries, the Global Social Media Impact Study found that as parents and older users saturate Facebook, its younger users are moving to alternative platforms. ‘Facebook is not just on the slide - it is basically dead and buried,’ wrote Daniel Miller, lead anthropologist on the research team, who is professor of material culture at University College London. ‘Mostly they feel embarrassed to even be associated with it. Where once parents worried about their children joining Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists they stay there to post about their lives.’ Teens do not care that alternative services are less functional and sophisticated, and they are also unconcerned about how information about them is being used commercially or by the security services, the research found. ‘What appears to be the most crucial moment in a young person’s decision to leave Facebook was surely that dreaded day your mum sends you a friend request,’ wrote Miller. ‘It is nothing new that young people care about style and status in relation to their peers, and Facebook is simply not cool anymore.’ In part of the study’s research with Italian Facebook users, 40% of users had never changed their privacy settings and 80% said they ‘were not concerned or did not care’ if their personal data was available and accessed, either by an organisation or an individual. A Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?
Identify the part of the text that supports your answer by copying the exact passage.
1 In general, Facebook is becoming old-fashioned.
2 Teenagers don’t want to continue on Facebook when their parents want to become their friends.
B Answer the following questions using your own words but taking into account the information in the text.
1 What are teenagers not concerned about?
2 What were the conclusions obtained from the research carried out with Italian Facebook users?
C Find words in the text that mean: 1 fill up completely so it is difficult to use (paragraph 1)
2 a group of people who work together (paragraph 2)
3 extremely important (paragraph 3)
4 that you can get or obtain (adj) (paragraph 3)
D Complete the second sentence. It must mean the same as the first sentence.
1 Facebook became very popular ten years ago. It is still very popular. Facebook
2 Facebook is not as popular as WhatsApp. WhatsApp
3 The team worked for many months. The members knew each other very well.
The team,
1 According to the text,
A Facebook is as popular as it was in the past. B nowadays Facebook is less popular among teenagers. C parents and users love Facebook. D Facebook users are usually between 16 to 18.
2 Daniel Miller A is the leader of the research team. B was the leader of the research team. C was professor at University College London. D believes in the family.
3 Children claim A parents insist on being informed. B parents worry too much. C parents were worried about them joining Facebook. D they need space.
4 Teenagers A don’t care about style and status. B don’t care about what is done with the information they give. C like to make commercial use of their information. D are frightened of security services.
5 According to the research with Italian Facebook users, A the vast majority had never changed their privacy settings. B less than half didn’t care about their privacy settings. C the vast majority changed their privacy settings. D the vast majority were not concerned about their privacy settings
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