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assignment in progress for 2025 p.7. s. 107, dev la 1 esol courseno. 100238 11, 12, 13, 14:7
due december 13, 2025 at 11:59 pm
anti - social networks? were just as cliquey online
laura sydell • 2011
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for some people, online social networking sites help them make new friends and keep in touch with old ones. for others, social networking sites may be reinforcing existing biases and limits new social experiences.
as you read, identify the authors claims about the influence of social media.
1 social networks such as facebook and twitter are helping people keep in touch with friends and family. but just how social are those networks? are internet communities simply
eal - world\ cliques moved online?
dwayne alkins uses facebook to stay in touch with people he already knows — friends and family who, for the most part, share his political views. alkins lives in oakland, calif., and runs a nonprofit that focuses on health and fitness.
\a lot of my friends are democrats and liberals,\ aikens says — and his facebook newsfeed reflects that. he doesnt see many posts from conservatives, he admits.
facebooks software may be reinforcing his tendency to only see links from people he
social media by martin gysler is licensed under cc by - nc - sa 2.0.
assessment questions

1. part b: which of the following quotes best supports the answer to part a?

○ a. \most people dont click on posts that they disagree with, explains dean eckles, a stanford ph.d. candidate studying social networks.\ (paragraph 5)
○ b. \facebook and twitter can act as echo chambers where you interact primarily with others who have similar interests and politics.\ (paragraph 6)
○ c. \that the show is still on the air today is thanks in part to its fans on twitter.\ (paragraph 7)
○ d. \im meeting strangers, she says — two in the last two weeks, in fact. i met them and i felt like, this is my tribe. (paragraph 13)
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Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze each option:

• Option A: Talks about not clicking on disagreeing posts, not directly about cliques/echo chambers of social media.
• Option B: States social networks act as echo chambers (similar to real - world cliques online) where people interact with like - minded others, which supports the idea of online cliques.
• Option C: Is about a show's success due to Twitter fans, not about social media's clique - like nature.
• Option D: Is about meeting strangers, which is the opposite of clique - like behavior.

Answer:

B. "Facebook and Twitter can act as echo chambers where you interact primarily with others who have similar interests and politics." (Paragraph 6)