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28.12.2021 00:51 •  Английский язык

Английский язык Fill in the gaps with one of the words

Fill in the gaps with one of the words:

desperate, connecting on, using the Internet, young people, over scheduled, hanging out, communicate, run around, make up, going online

Most everything we think we know about the way our kids are (1) is wrong.

Boyd’s new book, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, makes the case that the Internet isn’t nearly as scary to (2) as many parents believe.

Although the image persists that youngsters would rather text than talk, and prefer (3) Facebook than (4) in person, Boyd says this isn’t true. “Most of the teens that I met . . . were (5) for the opportunity to leave their homes to gather with friends,” she writes.

The trouble is that in many communities, young people have less freedom to roam than they once did as they are so (6) and because parents are worried about their safety. “The era of being able to (7) after school so long as you are home before dark is long over,” Boyd claims.

To (8) for this lost freedom, teens have turned to their gadgets. “The success of social media must be understood partly in relation to this shrinking social landscape,” Boyd explains. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other sites “are not only new public spaces; they are in many cases the only ‘public’ spaces in which teens can easily (9) with large groups of their peers.”

One way or another, “teens want to gossip, complain, compare notes, share passions and joke around,” Boyd adds. “They want to be able to talk among themselves—even if that means (10) ”.