Name: Muhammad Fiqri Fajrullah

NIM: 210502501063
Class: D/06
CRITICAL READING/17feb22
Reading: Are online "friends" a threat to development?
Before you read
1. a. Advantages
● We can interact more people in short time
● Helps in education
● For search jobs
● Spread Information fast
b. Disadvantages
● We can't see directly people who we interact
● There is potential of scam/identity steal
● Sometimes, the information we gets is fake
● People use social media for bullying

2. I agree, because it all depends on the individual, we as young people must use social
media wisely

Global warming
1. Friendship
3. Statements 2 & 3

Critical thinking skill

1. 1 The effect of new technology on our friendships is often discussed. (2)
The impact of technology on the nature of our friendships has been a
much-debated topic since the meteoric rise of social networks

2 Claims that social networking causes people to lose friendships are untrue. (3)
People are not substituting offline friends with online companions but are using
them to support their offline relationships. They also find that social networks
allow us to have discussions with a much more diverse set of people then in the
real world, so we share knowledge with people from a wide variety of backgrounds

3 Young people can talk to a wider range of people online. (3)

They also find that social networks allow us to have discussions with a much
more diverse set of people then in the real world, so we share knowledge with
people from a wide variety of backgrounds

4 Social networking can be advantageous for teenagers' emotional health (4)

A study conducted by Michigan State University (2010) conclude that our virtual
friendships provide social benefits and improve our psychological well-being

5 Social networking is causing young people to display different behavior. (5)

become vain, aggressive, and display antisocial behavior in their of one lives
 6 Through technology, people can fully control their friendships. (6)
Through her years of research, she has noticed that these device permit us to
have complete control over our friendships. Young people decide who they
communicate with, when, and how

7 Friendships in the real world are not easy to manage. (6)

Friendships are unpredictable and dif cult to deal with, but social networks are
allowing people to tidy them up and manage them

8 People do not want to be on their own any more. (7)

when we self-re ect and get in touch with who we really are. It is only when we do
this that we can make meaningful friendships with others

2. a. A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project 2

b. A university study where people did not use social networks for a day 8
c. Evidence from Larry D. Rosen 5
d. No reason or evidence given 1
e. Research by Sherry Turkle 6&7
f. Research by Michigan State University 4

3. Point 1, because its in first paragraph, it's called thesis

and 8, because its in last paragraph, it's called conclusion

Developing critical skill

1. I think no, because when we tired of using social media, it can be dangerous for our
health, for example our brain will tired and we can have unstable emotion that can
bring to the real world
2. As young people, we should know what the dangerous excessive use of social
media, For parents can give advice to young people to be able to limit the use of
social network, and the school environment can provide good support and good
information about the positive things in the use of social networking so as not to
be abused