January 28

Post 3: How does Social Media affect life both on and off line?

Let’s play Kahoot.  Get your phones out or play online.  https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=9ae1971e-5d75-4345-8535-046e06dec837&playId=88a393ac-80b3-43fc-8d20-aefa1b02bc4a

Assignment Part 1:  Answer all of these

  1. What do you like about social media?
    What don’t you like?
  2. How do things on social media impact your life offline?
  3. Do you ever witness or experience people fighting online or posting something to make
    other people mad?
  4. Posting, sharing, liking or commenting on pictures/statuses/videos/etc. that include
    guns, drugs, wads of cash, fights, threats, promoting violence, promoting a crew/gang ,
    etc can link youth to criminal activity and can create consequences such as
    getting arrested, suspended, expelled, fired, or rejected from a job, school, or
    scholarship.  What do you think about that?
  5. Some colleges and employers request your social media usernames and passwords to be considered
    for admissions or hiring– this provides them access to look through all of the applicant’s social media history, messages and posts.  Is this fair?
  6. When your friends are having an argument in-person, what do you do to calm them down?
    Do you think this approach would be different online? How is it different?
  7. Have you heard of cyber banging?
  8. Most teens say social media makes them feel better, not worse, about themselves.  What do you think?
  9. “Eighty-nine percent of teens have their own smartphones.  They grew up alongside Instagram and Snapchat. They do research papers on Google Classroom, find emotional support on teen forums, share poetry on Tumblr, and are more likely to text “I love you” before they’d ever say it to your face.”  Do you see yourself in any of these statements?  Explain.
  10. They can’t stop. They won’t stop.  Most teens think technology companies manipulate users to spend more time on their devices. Many of them also think that social media distracts them and their friends.  Do you agree with this statement?  Explain.
  11. Snapchat and Instagram are where it’s at. In 2012, Facebook dominated social networking use among teens. Today, only 15 percent say it’s their main site (when one 16-year-old girl was asked in a focus group whom she communicates with on Facebook, she replied, “My grandparents”).  True?
  12. Social media takes teens away from personal relationships and distracts them from paying attention to the people they’re with.  Agree?
  13. Exposure to hate speech is on the rise, while cyberbullying is less commonOnly 13 percent of teens report ever being cyberbullied. But nearly two-thirds say they often or sometimes come across racist, sexist, homophobic or religious-based hate content in social media.  Is this true?

Assignment Part 2:  One Positive = the Selfie

Sometimes a good selfie can just be a self esteem boost.

Add it to this post.


Posted January 28, 2020 by jenniferths in category Uncategorized

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