Episode 4 part 2+Mp3+Tape 134 h2’00’’11

Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation into how the

world wide web is transforming our lives.

In the fourth programme in the series, she looks at how the internet
is changing our very behaviour - and even our brain functions.

Joined by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Al Gore and

the neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, Aleks examines the popularity of
social networks such as Facebook.

How are they changing our relationships? Do they bring us together -

or do they end up leaving us more isolated?

1. Jim says that the kids come home and are on Facebook while they
are having their ____________.
2. When Jackie was young they didn’t even have __________.
3. Jackie says that it would be like _______________ if you took her
daughter’s Facebook site away from her.
4. Louis (Jackie’s son) thinks that before the web people just
___________

5. Using a data sample of eight million people we can reveal how far the
UK population ________________________________ the orbit of
the online social networks.
6. Bebo is for __________________.

7. More than half of UK Facebook members ______________ daily.

8. Facebook is so ______________ that it has become the main target

of parents’ angst

9. CLAY SHIRKY: People my age, mid 40s and up, are _____________
over what kids are doing, teens are doing on Facebook, as if we
would not have done those things had Facebook existed when we
were young.

10. The key criticism of Facebook is that it makes friendship meaningless

and that ________________ society
11. The label of friendship is just as easily attained by lifelong buddies as
it is by total strangers _________________ connections.

12. On the 24 th
May 2007, just ten days after his 23rd birthday, Mark
Zuckerberg ________________ into this hall and explained the
secret of Facebook’s triumphant success

13. Zuckerberg’s aim was that Facebook would become the destination
to connect to friends and share information, text, photos or social
 events. All that you need to do is sign up, create a profile, find your
mates and___________________ to become your Facebook friend.

14. In this way, each Facebook member ______________ their own

group of friends, all within the larger network

15. Zuckerberg: We are building a massive network of real connections

between people, through which information can flow more _________
than it really ever has in the past. And it’s changing the way the world
works
KEY
1. first cup of tea

2. a home telephone
3. removing her arm
4. read books
5. has been sucked into
6. The early teens.
7. log on
8. pervasive
9. wringing their hands
10. undermines
11. hoarding
12. shuffled
13. have them agree
14. carves out
15. efficiently

Vocabulary:

suck sb in | suck sb into sth[usually

passive] to involve sb in an activity or a
situation, especially one they do not
want to be involved in.

pervasive: adjective. Existing in all

parts of a place or thing; spreading
gradually to affect all parts of a place or
thing (generalizado, dominante,
penetrante):
a pervasive smell of damp
A sense of social change is pervasive
in her novels.

angst noun[U] (from German) a feeling

of anxiety and worry about a situation,
or about your life:
songs full of teenage angst

wring your hands: to hold your hands

together, and twist and squeeze them
in a way that shows you are anxious or
upset, especially when you cannot
change the situation
wring verb (wrung, wrung)
1 wring sth (out) to twist and squeeze
clothes, etc. in order to get the water
out of them
2 if you wring a bird’s neck, you twist it
in order to kill the bird

undermine verb [vn]

1 to make sth, especially sb’s
confidence or authority, gradually
weaker or less effective:
Our confidence in the team has been
seriously undermined by their recent
defeats. This crisis has undermined his
position.

Hoard: verb. To collect and keep large

amounts of food, money, etc.,
especially secretly. Almacenar

shuffle verb. To walk slowly without

lifting your feet completely off the
ground (caminar arrastrando los pies):
He shuffled across the room to the
window. The line shuffled forward a
little.

carve sth (out) (for yourself) to work

hard in order to have a successful
career, reputation, etc.(forjarse algo):
She has carved a place for herself in
the fashion world.
He succeeded in carving out a career
in the media.