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Reading Task,

.Read the article and discuss why teenagers prefer using different platforms other than the one created by Mark Zuckerberg to share videos and pictures.

Why Teenagers Love Video and Photo-Sharing Platforms

Since teens don't like using the sociai network whose icon is a rounded fvery much, its use has dropped in recent years. If this trend continues, by 2022, teenage use of this social network will have dropped by another 2.2million users. Since 2018, teenagers have enjoyed using video and photo-sharing platforms.Here's the breakdown of how teenagers use social media:

85% are on the video-shaning platform

72% use the photo-sharing social network

69% are on the multimedha messaging app

51% still usethe social network directed by Mark Zuckerberg.

Teenagers on the video-sharing platform

Teens like watching videos and movies on internet platforms more than TV. 34% watch the most popular video-sharing platform, 27%watch most popular streaming service platform, and 14% watch live Tv According to teenagers, the first of these three is like the new Tv. There are videos for anyone, and everybody can contnibute to the community by making their own videos. Today, teens' biggest aspiration is to be use it to tum themselves nto a great celebrity

Teenagers on the photo-sharing social network

Nowadays it is very common to see a teenager taking a selfie that wll probably be posted on the social network with the colorful camera icon.63% of teens use this social network every day. They love being creative and expressing themselves through photos and art. And of course they want to be the biggest photo-shaning social network superstars.

Teenagers on the multimedia messaging app

Lastly, the app with the white gost icon is where teenagers can share hilarious pictures in intimate groups rather than with the world. Teens feel more able to be themselves while sharing their day to day lives.

Text adapted from htps://wwwmaketuseof com/tag/teenagers-snapchat-instagram-youtube/

2. In your notebook, draw a bar graph indicating the percentage of use ofeach social network.

3.After you draw the graph, work in smallgroups and discuss:

a Which of the social networks from the article you like the most,and why.

b, Which you dislike the most, and why.

Contexto

Las tres redes sociales que aparecen en el texto son las más populares entre los adolescentes, siendo la más antigua la plataforma de videos fundada en febrero del 2005, le sigue la red de fotos compartidas en el año 20l0 y por último la app de mensajería instantánea,cuyo ícono es un fantasma blanco, en el 20l l. Se sugiere hacer una línea de tiempo con las tres redes sociales y las fechas en desorden. Así los estudiantes adivinan cuál es la más antigua.

Preguntas de profundización

Para profundizar en el contenido, y generar el diálogo entre los estudiantes, se sugiere realizar las siguientes preguntas:

• How much did you know about these social networks that are so popular among teenagers?

Why do you think the social network created by Mark Zuckerberg is not popular anymore among teenagers?

Solucionario

Reading Task

Why Teenagers Love Video and Photo-Sharing Platforms

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