Social Media and Friendship社交媒体和友谊

Setting the scene场景设计

What exactly is a friend? Or, again, what

什么人准确地说来是朋友？或者，同时，

exactly is a stranger? The answers to

什么人是陌生人？这个问题的答案曾经是清楚的

these questions used to be clear.

Friends were people that you

朋友是你生活中了解的，与之交往的，被你喜爱并且被相信的人。

knew,socialized with, liked, and trusted in real life.

Strangers were people you did not know.

而陌生人是那些你不了解的人。

But then along came new social media, and suddenly our ability to precisely define what makes one person a friend and another a stranger became increasingly blurred.

但是随后迎来了新的社交媒体，并且突然地我们的精确定义什么使一个人变成朋友和什么使另一个人变成陌生人的能力变得模糊。

Your transition from high school to college involves leaving old friends behind and facing the challenge of making new friends in a brand new place. This might lead to some worries: What kind of friends will I make? Should I make friends through social media? How many friends will I make? In this unit, you will read two texts about social media and friendship which might be helpful to you.

从高中到大学的改变，包括老朋友的离开和面对在新的地方交新朋友的挑战。这可能会带来一些担心：我将结交什么朋友呢？我是否应该通过社交媒体结交朋友？我将交到多少朋友？在这个单元，你将阅读两篇可能帮助到你的关于社交媒体和友谊的文章。

Learning objectives学习目标

Upon completion of this unit, you will be able to：

在完成这个单元之后，你将能够：

1.expand your vocabulary about social media and friendship

扩展你的社交媒体和友谊有关的词汇量

2.explain how social media affect our concepts of friendship

解释社交媒体如何影响我们对于友谊的想法

3.compare and contrast face-to-face friends with online friends

比较生活中的朋友和在线的朋友的相同与不同

4.identify better ways to make friends at college

知道更好地方式在大学里交朋友

5.participate in a mock debate on the topic "Face-to-face friends are better than online friends"

参加一场主题为“身边的朋友比网友更重要”的辩论赛