Laney College
Laney College, High Intermediate Reading & Writing
Writing Assignment #1-Summary/Response
Zhang Yue
A Summary of and Response to the Article “Online Friendships” In her article “Online Friendships” which appeared in an internet magazine Current Health 2, Jan Farrington talking about the advantages and disadvantages of online friendships. First of all, she lists how online friendship affects teens in real life. Teens spend a lot of time to connect with real-world friends online. Patricia Hersh, the author of A Tribe Apart, said online communicate is important in teen’s life. Second, it’s a good thing for teenagers to hang online. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found that online chatting is a useful way for teens to keep in touch with them real-world friends, and it can shorten the distance between teen and their friends. Also you can make new friends from internet. But life online is sometimes unfriendly, for example, rumors run away, and arguments exacerbate. However, Hersh said that teens will be more emotionally online than in real life, that is, cyberspace is a space where teens can be real themselves. Third, we need to be careful when we go online. Make sure that you won’t tell your private feelings with a stranger, and try to be sensitive with hurtful comments, to avoid bulling things happen. Eventually, a survey found that teens just spend a less time to contact with friends online. So author suggested teens to spend more times to keep up with friends in the future, and online is a convenient way to stabilize your friendship. Online friendship has some benefits for teenager, and it is important in teen’s real life, but teen should be careful when they use it. In her article “Online Friendships”, Farrington illustrates how online friendship is important in our teenager’s real life. In my experience, online friendship really does. I seldom hang out with my friend in real-world, I would like to stay at home to play online, and I
Writing Assignment #1-Summary/Response
Zhang Yue
A Summary of and Response to the Article “Online Friendships” In her article “Online Friendships” which appeared in an internet magazine Current Health 2, Jan Farrington talking about the advantages and disadvantages of online friendships. First of all, she lists how online friendship affects teens in real life. Teens spend a lot of time to connect with real-world friends online. Patricia Hersh, the author of A Tribe Apart, said online communicate is important in teen’s life. Second, it’s a good thing for teenagers to hang online. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found that online chatting is a useful way for teens to keep in touch with them real-world friends, and it can shorten the distance between teen and their friends. Also you can make new friends from internet. But life online is sometimes unfriendly, for example, rumors run away, and arguments exacerbate. However, Hersh said that teens will be more emotionally online than in real life, that is, cyberspace is a space where teens can be real themselves. Third, we need to be careful when we go online. Make sure that you won’t tell your private feelings with a stranger, and try to be sensitive with hurtful comments, to avoid bulling things happen. Eventually, a survey found that teens just spend a less time to contact with friends online. So author suggested teens to spend more times to keep up with friends in the future, and online is a convenient way to stabilize your friendship. Online friendship has some benefits for teenager, and it is important in teen’s real life, but teen should be careful when they use it. In her article “Online Friendships”, Farrington illustrates how online friendship is important in our teenager’s real life. In my experience, online friendship really does. I seldom hang out with my friend in real-world, I would like to stay at home to play online, and I