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➭ Text (1) – | Adolescence and the pursuit of popularity | www.psychologytoday.com |
➭ Text (2) – | The Use of Abbreviations in Text Messages | www.ehow.com |
❑ TEXTO 1: This text refers to items from 1 to 7.
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Adolescence and the pursuit of popularity
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Early adolescence (around ages 9 - 13) marks the
beginning of an age of more dislike.
2
First, there is more dislike of self as “child”, second, there is more dislike for parents and from parents, and third,
there is more dislike of family.
3
The onset of adolescence brings a degree of alienation from self, parents, and family. As one young man
put it; “Home is where you have to live when you’re not
hanging out with your friends.” It’s not that young persons and parents love each other any less, only that they
frequently dislike each other more.
4
So where can they recover lost liking? For most young people, the answer is in the company of friends who
one feels like, who one likes, and who give liking in return.
But finding friends, and keeping friends, and staying friends is an enormous challenge because everyone is changing just
like you. Everyone is feeling more alienated from family just
like you, and filled with self-doubt just like you.
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This is why striving for social connection and place
among peers becomes so desperately important, and why
more social cruelty (teasing, exclusion, bullying, rumoring, ganging up) is the outgrowth of this competition, particularly
during the late elementary and middle school years.
6
At this hard time, the propaganda of popularity can be pretty persuasive: “become popular and all your worries
and problems about social belonging with peers will be
solved and you will feel secure.” Popularity means you have a well-established social place among peers who want to be
with you, with whom you have social standing, with whom
you can hang out, and who can provide the accepting companionship you need.
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So at school, group affiliation is often signified by a certain
gathering space, a physical place, like a hallway or courtyard at breaks or a table at lunch. If you have a place to hang out
that means you have a gang of friends.
8
You don’t want to be unpopular because you fear your peers may ignore or avoid you because they fear being
known by the company they keep. However, some of the
common costs that sometimes come with being very popular are:
— Popularity brings pressure — to belong you have
to conform, being like, behaving like, and believing like other members of your group.
— Popularity is precarious — people can vote you
in and they can vote you out, and “elections” can be held at
a moment’s notice when you accidentally offend or someone “better” comes along.
— Popularity is partly unpopular — while some
people admire you, others envy you, can get jealous, and want to bring you down.
— Popularity can be limiting - the more you invest
in popularity at school, the less you are likely to invest in creating a social life outside school.
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Most important, popularity and friendship are not
the same. Popularity is political; friendship is personal. Popularity is about rank; friendship is about relationship.
Popularity is more casual; friendship is more caring.
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So what is better than trying to be really popular? Consider just being content with having a few close friends
you can trust, acquaintances that can be fun to be with, and
having the capacity to enjoy the pleasure of your own company when you are alone.
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Consider even taking time with family — that
lifelong group that will still be with you long after most of these peers, who seem so important now, will have grown up
and gone their separate ways.
Carl Pickhardt, Internet:
❑ TEXTO 2:
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I want to do this! What’s This?
The trend of thumb-typing text messages onto a tiny cell phone screen has given rise to a whole new system
of abbreviations and altered grammar. Parents, teachers, and adults in general, do not approve it. Teachers complain that students are using abbreviations in schoolwork, too. However, reality is there and many adults have come across
these abbreviations without having a clue as to their meaning. To many people, the SMS-speak is intuitively simple.
For others, though, learning and using the system can take some time. The following steps will help you to use and
7 understand text message abbreviations.
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