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04. What Advice Do You Have for Younger Kids About
Navigating Social Media?
How old were you when you first got on Facebook,
Instagram or any other social network?
What mistakes did you make? What did you learn from
them? What advice would you give a younger sibling who is just
getting started? Why?
In “Seven Ways Parents Can Help 13-Year-Olds Start Their

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Social Media Lives Right,” KJ Dell’Antonia writes:
Thirteen-year-olds who are already on social media spend a
lot of time there, living their social lives both online and off.
CNN’s new documentary, “Being 13,” and an accompanying1
report, “Being Thirteen: Social Media and the Hidden World of
Young Adolescents2’ Peer Culture,” reveal3 an entire world of just
barely teenage posting, commenting, jockeying4 and, most of all,
lurking on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
While not every 13-year-old is on social media, or wants to
be, many are. Fifty-seven percent of 13- and 14-year-olds use
Facebook, 44 percent use Instagram, and 21 percent use Twitter,
according to the Pew Research Center. And as 13-year-olds begin

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to mix social media into their lives, they open a window into the
carefully curated5 lives of their classmates. Many are delighted by
that additional connection, but even the most socially deft
teenagers can feel left out of pictured fun6 that doesn’t include
them, get caught up in online conflict, or feel slighted by a lack of

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appreciation of their posts. For young teenagers who are
experiencing less offline social success, the online world can
exacerbate7 their difficulties.
… These teenagers, at the youngest end of the spectrum8,
valued their online connectedness but also described in more detail

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the ways the specific online interactions affected them. Although

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much of that impact, even when negative, appears to be shortlived9 (researchers found no meaningful associations between

involvement with social media and psychological adjustment),

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many of the individual comments and behaviors from teenagers
suggested that social media had great power to affect their day-today emotions in ways a parent might regard with suspicion10. One
child said she took 100 to 200 pictures of herself to get a good
selfie; another regularly posted images on Instagram seeking
specific forms of approval only to receive silence in return. Many
spent hours scrolling through the images of their peers’ lives
online.

Questions:
1. What do you remember about your first

Comments:
As an older woman and Mom, social

experiences on social media? Were they

media didn’t exist in my time. My advise to

more positive or negative? What did you

young children would be not to engage in

learn early on? How?

social media until they are old enough and

2. Do you agree that the online world

mature enough to understand the dangers

exacerbates difficulties for young people

that can occur. I realize my answer will not

who are having trouble socially? What

be popular but there’s been too many fatal

advice would you give those students in

occurrences involving children and the

particular?

internet over the past years.

3. How much did or do your parents “lurk”

There’s been a rise in missing

on your social media? Do you agree with

children and child sex trafficking all due

the advice given in the article that parents

mostly to the internet. Parents today need to

should lurk initially, but not comment or

be proactive in what they are allowing their

otherwise be a real presence there?

children to do while on their computers and

4. Are there important lessons to be learned

cellphones. I know you can’t watch children

from making mistakes on social media?

every minute of the day but as parents you

To what extent do you think parents

have to keep your eyes on your prize:YOUR
CHILDREN.


should intervene11 if they see their child
do something that seems like a mistake?
5. What do you think of the advice in this
article? Do you agree? What would you
add?

Useful Vocabulary:
1. accompanying (adj)

5. curate (v)

8. spectrum (n)

/əˈkʌm.pə.ni.ɪŋ/

/kjʊəˈreɪt/

/ˈspek.trəm/

appearing or going with

to select things such as

C1 : a range of different

someone or something

documents, music,

positions, opinions, etc.

else

products, or internet

between two extreme points

=> đi kèm, kèm theo

content to be included as

=> quang phổ (nhưng ở đây

part of a list or collection,

là nghĩa bóng, chỉ một loạt

2. Adolescent (n)

or on a website

các lựa chọn khác nhau giữa

/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/

=> thu thập (thông tin)

2 cực điểm)

is developing into an

6. out of the picture (idm)

9. short-lived (adj)

adult

not important to or not

/ˌʃɔːtˈlɪvd/

=> người ở độ tuổi vị

involved in a situation

lasting only for a brief time

thành niên

=> không quan

=> chỉ tổn tại trong thời gian

trọng/không liên quan

ngắn

/rɪˈviːl/

7. exacerbate (n)

10. suspicion (n)

C2 : to allow something

/ɪɡˈzæs·ərˌbeɪt/

/səˈspɪʃ.ən/

to be seen that, until then,

to make something that is

a belief or idea that

had been hidden

already bad worse

something may be true

=> tiết lộ

=> khiến cho trầm trọng

=> sự nghi ngờ

C2: a young person who

3. reveal (v)

hơn
4. jockey (v)

11. intervene (v)

/ˈdʒɒk.i/

/ˌɪn.təˈviːn/

jockey for something

C2 : to intentionally become
involved in a difficult


to attempt to obtain power

situation in order to improve

or get into a more

it or prevent it from getting

advantageous position

worse

than other people by

=> can thiệp để giải quyết

using any methods you

vấn đề

can
=> cố gắng chiếm lấy lợi
thế bằng mọi cách

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