Prime Time 5, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

 1 ......................................................................................... According to the makers of the site, Facebook is a “social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them”. The primary feature on Facebook is the ability to invite friends and to be invited as a friend by others. When this is done, although it is an ongoing process that regular users will never finish, accepted friends are able to see each other’s “walls” and “status”. A wall is an individual user’s page where any event mentioning them will appear, such as photos including them or their own status. A status is simply what the user has written, primarily to describe whatever is going on in the user’s life at that moment. Friends can then comment on the status and so begin a conversation. It is easy to invite friends; simply put their name into the search bar at the top of any page or ask Facebook to look inside any e-mailing contact list that you have. If they have a Facebook account they will appear and you can send a friend invitation. If they say yes, then they become your friend and each of you can see the other’s information.  2 ....................................................................................................... Facebook was established in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while students at Harvard University. Initially only for use by Harvard students, it spread to all Ivy League Universities 2 in the USA. As Facebook evolved and grew in stature, it spread to most of the universities across the world; any student could start an account by listing a valid academic e-mail address. Today Facebook is available to anyone aged 13 or over, providing they have access to a computer. At the time of its founding, both MySpace and Bebo were starting to be used by large numbers of people, primarily young adults and teenagers. Facebook initially struggled to overcome the advantages of these already entrenched social sites, as users were unwilling to change sites and start building their networks afresh; however by 2009, Facebook was ranked as the most widely-used social networking site with a clear margin over the second most widely used, MySpace. Text: Facebook – an introduction 1 Reading: Who is a friend? Read the following article about social networking sites and add headlines on the dotted lines for each paragraph. The highlighted words may help you. 2 Understanding the text Select the option that reflects the information in the text most accurately. 1. The most important aspect of Facebook is a) that you can show others who you are.  b) that you can contact your friends.  c) that you can share your friends with others.  2. A wall a) separates the users from each other and helps them to protect their privacy.  b) is like a notice board showing all sorts of information about the owner of a page and his or her friends.  c) is a list of invitations to potential friends.  2 Ivy League Universities: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University. All of these universities can be found in the Northeast of the US. general history past beginnings start introduction overview summary 24 Identities – what next? 2 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv