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Reading Activity

A What comes to your mind when you look at the photo and the quote below? Write five words, please.

I know a lot of people,

but not everyone is my

friend.

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B Read the text and write questions to the answers given below using the clues.

WHO YOUR TRUE FRIENDS ARE ...

First, think about what a friend means to you. Is s/he someone you have never met in real life but who accepts
your friend request online or a person you have known since childhood and kept in touch with all these years?

Whether online or with real friends, we would like to be connected wherever we are nowadays. We use social
media to share photos, videos, and status updates with our friends and family. The number of people who
follow you on social media has become the norm. Does having tons of social media friends mean you are in
friendship in the real world?
Technology and social media have changed the meaning of friendship in our lives, we have more friends

than ever, but we also feel more alone. Although social media and other technology make it easier to find,
connect with friends, and keep them, is it so easy to build friendships built on honesty, trust, empathy, and
vulnerability in an online world full of fake facts and trolls? People do not think the internet is making them

less social. Instead, most people think it is giving new ways to communicate and interact with the rest of the
world that hasn’t been possible at any other time.
Though such conflicts and paradoxes are renowned among generation Z, they are still unaware of the
overload of impersonal interactions and fewer face-to-face conversations. According to some studies, a
person establishes the importance of being included in social circles during adolescence, which is critical for

developing their identity and determining values and opinions about others and the world. Do you think it is
enough to identify those circles using digital skills?
Actually, we must not ignore a general disadvantage. We believe in the ancient saying that “Books and friends

should be few but good,” however, what we see online is an entirely different
reality. These youth often seek out numerous friendships, sacrificing quality
in favour of number.
In a nutshell, it’s hard to be human without face-to-face relationships with
other people because friends touch our hearts, minds, and imaginations in

many ways, but not with numbers …

ORTAÖĞRETİM 10 ENGLISH-11
GENEL MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ