Debate Social networking & Social media

Gimnasio Campestre
Del Norte School
DEBATE: SOCIAL NETWORKING & SOCIAL MEDIA
GRADE: Tenth (Intermediate)
TEACHER: Oscar Fabian Neira Lopez
Term: Third
DATE: August 21st 2014
Tenth Graders
Activities: Read the proposed questions and take part in the discussion.

INDEX
Warming up Questions
Questions 1 – 33
Conclusions

WARMING UP
• What social networking sites do you use?
• What information do you have on your webpage,
Facebook page, Twitter account, YouTube channel ?
• What are some good points about social networking?
• What are some bad points about social networking?
• What kind of information are you comfortable releasing
to the public?
• Do your parents use social networking sites? What sites?
• What type of information should you put on social
networking sites?
• What do you use the Internet for? What devices are you
using to access it?

WARMING UP
• Who do you communicate with by using social networks?
• Do you think that people should put photos of their
friends on the Internet?
• How private is information you post on the Internet? Who
might see it?
• Have you seen sexual images on homepages, or on
profiles? What did you do?

QUESTION 1
• Do you think college admissions officers
should look online for information on
prospective students? On facebook, twitter,
instagram, tumblr, blogger, pinterest,
YouTube etc.
• What about potential employers?
Argument your answers!

QUESTION 2
• Do you think you can be more authentic
when you are online - can you show who
you really are by means social networking?

QUESTIONS 3, 4, 5
• Have you been contacted by a stranger on
the Internet? How did you respond?
• Do you think communicating with people
you don’t know on-line is safe? Why?
• What is your opinion about people play to
be someone else and play around with their
identity?

QUESTIONS 6, 7, 8
• Teasing, lying, gossiping, threatening,
spreading rumors, and harassing are all
forms of bullying. If these things occur
online, are they perceived as less
“harming?”
• Has anyone done this to you? How did you
react?
• How did you react if you or a friend is
struggling with this?

QUESTION 9
• Some people don't use email anymore,
because they prefer social networks. What
do you think?

QUESTIONS 10, 11
• Some people "collect" friends in social
networks. Is it possible to have 500 friends
in real life?
• What are the differences between your
social network friends and off-line friends?
Explain what kind of relationship you have
with them.

QUESTION 12
• What populations may benefit from the use
of Social Networks?

QUESTION 13, 14
• Should children be allowed to use social
networking sites?
• Should parents become friends of their
kids online?

QUESTION 15
• Is it possible that social networking sites
make people lonelier?

QUESTION 16
• Would you prefer to meet new people at a
party or online?
Describe the first contact or conversation
that would you have with new people at the
party and new people on-line.

QUESTION 17
• Are social networking sites changing our
daily behaviour?

QUESTION 18
• How do you feel if you were Mark
Zuckerberg?
• What new features would you like to see
on social networking sites?

QUESTION 19
• Do you think Internet addiction is a real
disease?

QUESTION 20
• What are our rules for appropriate high-
tech usage? At school, home, pub, cinema,
mall etc.?

QUESTION 21
• What times and areas for you must be
designated to be free of high-tech devices?

QUESTION 22, 23
• What is your opinion before YouTubers
and people who have become famous
because of social networks?
• If you were a YouTuber what topic(s)
would you address? And how?

QUESTION 24
• If you were asked to “disconnect” (no cell
phones or Internet) for a period of two
weeks, how easy or hard would it be for
you and why?

QUESTION 25
• Using social media can harm job stability
and employment prospects?

QUESTION 26
• Social media allows for quick, easy
dissemination of public or private
information, how can you find if is reliable
information?

QUESTION 27
• Do you thing that is necessary a
supervision from government or other
instances to watch what people do by
means social networks?

QUESTION 28
• Unauthorized sharing on social
networking sites exposes artists to
copyright infringement, loss of intellectual
property, and loss of income. What’s your
position before this?

QUESTION 29
• What is “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge”?

QUESTION 30
• In what way can it be boost the positive
impact of social media in the daily life of
people?

QUESTION 31
• What is the impact of social media in the
integral development of people and in their
project life?

QUESTION 32
The use of social networking sites is
correlated with personality and brain
disorders, such as the inability to have in-
person conversations, a need for instant
gratification and self-centered personalities,
as well as addictive behaviors.
• What’s your opinion?

QUESTION 33
• Social networking has been the fastest
spreading invent in human history with
pros and cons, but what will be the future
of social networks?

QUESTION 34
• What is the contribution of social media to
education, communication, work and
school relationships, research, science and
citizenship?

CONCLUSIONS

SOURCES
 Warming up & Questions
http://iteslj.org/questions/socialnetworking.html
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/ag/Social_Networking_Discussion_Questions_190702_7
.pdf
http://teflpedia.com/Social_networks_conversation_questions
http://www.augcominc.com/index.cfm/sn-faq.htm
http://www.esldiscussions.com/s/social_networking.html
http://socialnetworking.procon.org/
 Note some information was modified.

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