少年,社交媒体如何“动”了我们的生活.docVIP

少年,社交媒体如何“动”了我们的生活 　　社交媒?w已经渗透到人们生活的方方面面，以飞快的速度改变影响着我们的生活。通过本文，我们来看看社交媒体对最活跃的用户青少年产生了怎样的影响吧。 　　Social media is one of the fastest-growing industries in todayapos；s interconnected world， attracting more users every day. At the forefront of this movement are teens―a Pew Research Center1） study stated 92 percent of teens report going online daily， making them the most active social media participants of any demographic2）. 　　For people entering college next year， social media will be ubiquitous3）―next yearapos；s freshman class will have largely been born in 1998， said Paul Booth， associate4） professor of media and cinema studies at DePaul University. They will not remember a world without YouTube， Facebook or Twitter ... Theyapos；re certainly more apos；plugged in5）apos； than earlier generations because thatapos；s the world they grew up in. 　　As a result of this ubiquity， teens have seen a monumental shift in nearly all facets6） of adolescent life. 　　在今天这个互联的世界，社交媒体是发展最快的行业之一，每天都吸引着更多人成为其用户。走在这一发展最前沿的是青少年――皮尤研究中心的一份研究显示，92%的青少年反馈自己每天都会上网，这使得他们成为所有年龄段中最活跃的社交媒体使用者。 　　“对于明年即将进入大学的人来说，社交媒体将无处不在――明年的大一新生大多都会是1998年生人，”德保罗大学媒体及电影研究专业的副教授保罗?布思说，“他们不会记得一个没有YouTube、Facebook和Twitter的世界……比起之前的几代人，他们无疑更‘接电气’，因为这就是他们成长的世界。” 　　这种无所不在的结果就是，青少年业已见证了其青少年生活几乎所有层面的巨大转变。 　　Changing Relationships 　　Lyons Township junior Elly Cooper said she thinks that social media often detracts7） from face-to-face communication. 　　I think it definitely makes in-person relationships harder because of peopleapos；s attention given to their phones or devices instead of their friends， Cooper said. 　　Beyond diminishing friendsapos； time spent together， some think thereapos；s a greater possibility for things to get lost in translation over social media. 　　You also lose a more personable8） experience because if half of your relationship is over social media， you donapos；t really know how the other person is reacting， and it may not feel as intimate as other relationships， St. Charles East junior Sienna