For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to talk to her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old girl discovered that her mom had been posting her photos for much of her life. “It’s strange to see myself up there, and sometimes there are pictures I don’t like of myself,” she said.
Like most other modern kids, Cara grew up under the influence of social media.Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were all founded before she was born. Instagram has existed since she was a toddler. Although many kids may not yet have accounts (账户) themselves, their parents, schools, sports teams have been organizing an online one for them since birth. It is a shock to know that details about their lives have been shared online without their permission or knowledge. And this has become a common experience for many teenagers.
Recently a parenting blogger (博主) said that despite her 14-year-old daughter’s horror at discovering that her mother had shared years of highly personal information about her online, she simply could not stop doing it.
But it’s not just crazy mommy bloggers who share their children’s information on social media. Plenty of average parents do the same. There’s even a special word for it: sharenting. Almost a quarter of children begin their digital lives when parents upload their prenatal sonogram scans (产前超声波扫描) to the Internet, according to a study conducted by the Internet-security company AVG. The study also found that 92 percent of kids under the age of 2 already have their own unique online identity(身份).
【小题1】What does the underlined word “toddler” in the second paragraph probably mean?| A．Teenage girl. | B．Very young child. |
| C．Elementary school student. | D．High school student. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Doubtful. |
| C．Negative. | D．Uninteresting. |
| A．AVG is the name of an Internet company. |
| B．About 25% of children begin their digital lives before they are born. |
| C．Fathers don’t like to share their kids’ information on social media. |
| D．Average parents created the word “sharenting” on the Internet recently. |
| A．Growing up on the Internet | B．A New Word Born |
| C．Parents Lost in Blogging | D．The Children’s Horror |
