SOCIAL NETWORK
Nowadays, social network has become a big role of the world where people can easily interact with other people, even across the world. So many sites that give us this feature like Facebook which we know as the gate of social network media in the world, Twitter, Skype, My Space, and many more.
Most of modern people who know the social network possibly has an alternative from those media.
Social network infl uences the human life. People can share anything here; express what they think with words, pictures, and videos. Or we can build our own image in public to reach popularity. A person can be more popular in social network but in reality it is so different. For some people,
updating their status or commenting someone’s status or something like that is a need. That’s why social network Has benefits in human life.
Beside those accounts of social networks, there must be a negative impact. Social network can be a mask for criminals. In social network, there are so many manipulation and hoax because not all people give the true information of themselves. Therefore it can also decrease the confi dence when people only interact in an unreal world without communicate in real world. They can’t be themselves in reality.
All the facts above prove that something always has good and bad side. Social network can be the biggest way to ourselves, but considering it as a need or Even thinking we Can’t live without it, is so wrong. We must not depend on social network to interact. Open your eyes and be realistic.
DIFFICULT WORD
Nowadays : dewasa ini
Easily : dengan muda
Interact : berinteraksi
Across : lintas
Feature : fitur
Influence : pengaruh
Popularity : kepopuleran
Different : berbeda
Benefits : manfaat
Manipulation : manipulasi
Themselves : diri
Decrease : mengurangi
Ourselves : diri
Grate : memarut
Reach : mencapai
Impact : dampak
Therefore : karena itu
Repend : bergantung
Prove : membuktikkan
Possibly : mungkin
DIFFICULT WORD
Nowadays : dewasa ini
Easily : dengan muda
Interact : berinteraksi
Across : lintas
Feature : fitur
Influence : pengaruh
Popularity : kepopuleran
Different : berbeda
Benefits : manfaat
Manipulation : manipulasi
Themselves : diri
Decrease : mengurangi
Ourselves : diri
Grate : memarut
Reach : mencapai
Impact : dampak
Therefore : karena itu
Repend : bergantung
Prove : membuktikkan
Possibly : mungkin
Q&A
1. What is the text about?
a. social life d. social organization b. society e. Social culture c. social network
2. Which one that doesn’t belong to social networks based on the text?
a. Facebook d. My space b. Twitter e. Television c. Skype
3. Poeple can share what they think with by having an account in social network?
a. Words only d. Videos only
b. Letter e. Words,pictures, and videos c. Pictures only
4. What is the negative impact of social network?
a. it cannot be a mask for criminal, it can decrease the confidence b.it can be a mask for criminal, it can increase the confidence c. it can be a way to stop criminal
d. it can be a mask for criminal, it can decrease the confidence e. it can be some money for criminal, it can decrease the confidence 5. The conclusion of the text is that we must?
a. Not depend on the reality
b. Be smarter in the social network
c. Not depend on social network and we must be realistic d. For get the rality to find a life in the social network e. Make everything better in the social network