Social networking is a tool used by people all around the world. Its _______ is to promote and aid communication._______, this type of technology might be doing more harm than good.

On these networking sites, users _______ post pictures of themselves and their friends. Teenagers, however, use this new technology in a way that could be _______. In this stage of their lives, they always _______ to impress their peers(同龄人). Teenagers attract attention through the interesting pictures they _______. In order to get the results they want, they try to get a reaction from controversial _______ of themselves. This adolescent need to be “_______” leads to lots of young girls and boys attempting to _______ one another by showing themselves drinking, smoking and partying.

With so many teens using social networking, it has become easier to ____________ one another. Cyber bullying (欺凌) is a form of bullying that is only done through the web. Bullying is ____________ to deal with in person, but the situation is even severer over the Internet. When ____________ comments are posted on a person’s page, anyone can see them. However, on the networks no one is there to ____________ the attack. This makes it harder for a ____________ to find the attacker.

With the constant use of these social technologies, fewer people are communicating ____________. Many people are becoming ____________ due to the lack of personal communication. What’s more, without person-to-person communication we will ____________ our language skills and have trouble speaking in public. Normal debates will become more difficult because we are not ____________ to read one another’s body language.

Social networking aids long-distance communication greatly ____________ there must be a stopping point. It cannot become our main ____________ of communication.

The fact that your friends and peers have tattoos is one of the reasons why many young people get tattoos. Actually, peer pressure, media influence, and personal expression are some of the common _______for wearing tattoos today.

The desire to be part of a group, to be _______by one's friends or peers, can have a great influence on what a person does. Sometimes, wearing a tattoo can be a sign that you belong to a certain_______. Gangs often use special clothes and tattoos to_______their particular group. For example, in one gang all the _______may wear green army jackets and have large "Xs" tattooed on their arms. It is not only gangs that have this type of_______"uniform". When a young person's friends are all wearing tattoos, that person is likely to do the _______thing.

Another big influence behind the _______of tattoos is the media. Tattoos are shown by a wide variety of media _______. They can be seen on lots of famous sports heroes and fashion models in __________, on newspapers, on TV and so on. People are familiar with these media images that link __________to ideas of wealth, success, and status tattoo for the __________of fashion or status value. As a result, many people get a tattoo for its fashion and status value.Besides, many people wear tattoos in order to show their __________. A musician in a rock band may get a tattoo of a guitar on the arm. Some environmentalists may tattoo pictures of endangered animals, and __________may tattoo each other's names over their hearts. So a tattoo can be a public sign to show what is __________in a person's life.

In life, we always feel as if our bad circumstances will never change. However, when we meet troubles or problems in our lives, we are eager for a _________ that tells us everything will be _________ and get better.

When in this mindset(心态), I think back to a _________ I once heard about a family having dinner at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, everyone _________ their fortune cookie and read their _________ out loud. _________, the youngest child did not, she went to get another fortune cookie. This _________ several times before the mom _________ her and asked, “What are you doing?” The little child responded, “I am looking for a cookie with the _________ fortune for me.” The mom said, “There is only one thing you need to __________ and it’s not in a fortune cookie. That is where there is a will, there’s a way.”

When __________ are not going our way, we may __________ the “right fortune”. We seek the hope for our __________ so that it will be better than the present. Once the Israelis were expelled(驱逐) in a foreign country against their __________. At that time, everything was __________for them, but they didn’t lose hope; instead, they __________ to their new environment positively. Years later they returned to their homeland as they had __________.

We need to __________ action and hope and believe that nothing is __________ to a willing mind in life. It does prove that good things do come out of bad and difficult __________.