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By the end of this period, you will be able to:
1. collect information about social media and teen health;
2. talk about what the benefits and dangers of social media use are;
3. work out the steps you can take to control your social media use.
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Social Media and Teen Health
Blackburn College is in the city of Blackburn in the northwest of England. Some researchers are worried that students in England are spending too much time on social media.
Complete the sentences below with the expressions in the box.
selfies social media profile 24/7
selfie a photograph that you take of yourself, usually with a smartphone, and often share on social media. 自拍照
social media profile A personal page or account on a social media platform that shows information about a person, such as their name, photo, posts, and interests
社交媒体个人主页 社交媒体个人资料页
24/7 twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week：all the time
一天24小时、一周7天 全天候 一直不休（地）
Complete the sentences below with the expressions in the box.
selfies social media profile 24/7
1. Jill is concerned about having a good ________________, so she always posts things that will make other people smile.
2. Everyone was excited to see photos from Andy’s trip, but they were disappointed when they saw that he had only posted _______.
3. It seems that Nancy is online ________. She posts all the time, no matter what hour it is in the day or the night.
24/7
social media profile
selfies
1. What is NOT a negative effect of using social media 24/7
A. It can hurt your confidence in yourself.
B. It can hurt your ability to make friends in the real world.
C. It causes a lack of sleep, and that can harm your health.
√
Choose the best answers according to the video.
(1) What is NOT a negative effect of using social media 24/7
It can hurt your confidence in yourself.
It can hurt your ability to make friends in the real world.
It causes a lack of sleep, and that can harm your health.
harmful
Smoking is detrimental to health.
make sb. unhappy or depressed
(1) What is NOT a negative effect of using social media 24/7
reach the highest point or value
2. How is Blackburn College dealing with social media
A. They make students turn off social media at certain times.
B. They have decided to forbid social media use.
C. They try to encourage students to use it responsibly.
√
Complete the quotes below with words you hear in the video.
1. “…it’s very easy to become too invested in having to keep _________ and ________ pictures, and _________ to people online.”
updating
liking
responding
2. “They want to be online ______. And as that need ___________, then we also saw that had an impact on their ____________.”
24/7
increased
sleep quality
3. “What we try to do here is to develop some self-regulation skills in young people so they understand when to _______, when to ______.”
turn off
turn on
Like most teenagers, much of the socializing these students at Blackburn College do is online. 和大多数青少年一样，布莱克本学院的这些学生的许多社交活动都是在网上进行的。
“And then you realise, oh no, it’s 2 o’clock in the morning and I’ve got an exam...” 和大多数青少年一样，布莱克本学院的这些学生的许多社交活动都是在网上进行的。
But the British Psychological Society has raised concerns that late nights spent maintaining social media profiles could be detrimental to their health. 英国心理学会提出担忧：为了维护社交媒体个人主页而熬夜到很晚，可能会对他们的健康产生不利影响。
“Most people use social media nowadays so it’s very easy to become too invested in having to keep updating and liking pictures, and responding to people online.”
“如今大多数人都在使用社交媒体，因此人们很容易过度投入，不停地更新动态、给照片点赞，并在线回复他人的消息。”
“Many people post pictures of themselves which can quite easily not peak people’s confidence.” 很多人会发布自己的照片，而这些照片有时很容易影响他人的自信心
“Seeing posts of people and like, their lives, and comparing your life to other people’s lives, and maybe it’s not as exciting or not as successful and it might put yourself down.”当你看到别人发布的生活动态，并把自己的生活与他人的生活进行比较时，你可能会觉得自己的生活没有那么精彩，也没有那么成功，这可能会让你产生自卑感。
Researchers think that it’s not just the lack of sleep caused by late nights online that are causing these issues but that it’s the emotional investments in maintaining a 24/7 social media profile that could also be a major factor.
研究人员认为，造成这些问题的原因不仅仅是因为深夜上网导致睡眠不足，还可能是因为人们在维持一个全天候(24/7)的社交媒体形象上投入了大量情感，这也可能是一个重要因素。
That comes from research carried out at the University of Glasgow.
这一结论来自于格拉斯哥大学开展的一项研究。
[Dr Heather Cleland Woods, Lead Researcher首席研究员, Glasgow University.]
“We saw that overall, social media use was related to someone’s anxiety, and their depression. They want to be online 24/7. And as that need increased, then we also saw that that had an impact on their sleep quality ”
“我们发现，总体来说，社交媒体的使用与人们的焦虑和抑郁有关。他们希望自己能够全天候在线(24/7)。而随着这种需求的增加，我们也发现这对他们的睡眠质量产生了影响。”
Here at Blackburn, they embrace the technology but try to encourage students to use it responsibly. 在Blackburn这里，人们接受并使用这项技术，但同时也努力鼓励学生以负责任的方式使用它。
[Tracy Stuart, Blackburn College.]
“What we try to do here is to develop some self-regulation skills in young people so they understand when to turn off, when to turn on, when to make sure that they’ve got all the commitments, all the parts of their lives so that the whole world doesn’t become a virtual world.”
我们努力做的，是培养年轻人的自我调节能力，使他们懂得什么时候该放下电子设备，什么时候可以使用它们，并学会妥善安排生活中的各种责任与事务，不让整个世界都沦为虚拟世界。
The advice of course would be to moderate your social media use. Easy to say, but for many young people, not so easy to do. If they can, they may find themselves looking and feeling much more healthy in their selfies.
当然，人们给出的建议是适度使用社交媒体。说起来容易，但对许多年轻人来说却并不容易做到。若他们能够做到，或许会发现自己在自拍中看起来更加健康，整个人的状态也会更好。
Discuss the questions in groups.
1. What are some of the benefits and dangers of social media use
One of the benefits of social media is that we can exchange information quickly and instantly.
However, because there is a constant stream of information we can spend too much time looking at screens, which is not very social at all!
2. What steps can you take to control your social media use
Don’t take devices into the bedroom, because looking at social media on them affects your sleep.
Only use social media for a limited time each day.
Go out and meet your friends somewhere as well as talking to them online.

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