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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) _______”.
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1 using the Internet
2 young people
3 connecting on
4 hanging out
5 desperate
6 overscheduled
7 run around
8 make up
9 communicate
10 going online
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