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aCTIvITy 3.8
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Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read the following informational text, continue to use metacognitive markers to engage with the text and, as you gain more information, to support a position on the value of social networking.
Word CoNNeCTIoNS
Etymology
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words The word blog was first used in by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary. the late 1990s as a shortened
Informational Text
form of weblog, a website in the form of a journal. Blog combines the sound and meaning of two words, web and log, a system of word invention used by author Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass. The use of blog was picked up by Web companies and individual Internet users and led to other derivations such as the verb blogging, to write short, informal posts on a blog site.
Pro and Con Arguments:
“Are social networking
sites good for our society?”
Did you know?
1. Social networking and blogging sites accounted for 17% (about one in every six minutes) of all time spent on the Internet in Aug. 2009, nearly three times as much as in 2008.
2. Twitter was so important to the Iranian protests after the Iranian presidential election in June 2009 that the US State Department asked Twitter to delay a scheduled network upgrade that would have taken the website offline at a busy time of day in Iran. Twitter complied and rescheduled the downtime to 1:30 am Tehran time.
3. On Nov. 3, 2008, the day before the US presidential election, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had 2,379,102 Facebook supporters while Republican candidate John McCain had 620,359. Obama had 833,161 MySpace friends and McCain had 217,811. Obama had 384% more Facebook supporters and 383% more MySpace friends than McCain.
4. Russians spend more time on social networking sites than people in any other country, an average of 6.6 hours per month compared to the worldwide average of 3.7 hours per month.
my Notes
PRO Social Networking Sites
CON Social Networking Sites
1. Social networking sites allow people to create new relationships and reconnect with friends and family. Increased communication, even online, strengthens relationships.
1. Teens growing up with these
sites may not be aware that the information they post is public and that photos and text can be retrieved even after deletion. Consequences from over-sharing personal information include vulnerability to sexual or financial
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upgrade: an improvement, to a next level
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