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    Reading practice 12a

    The science of selfies


    The rise in social media has brought with it a variety of fashions – some wonderful and others incredibly stupid – and new
    behaviour. For example, it now turns out that millions of humans are bizarrely obsessed with photos of cats! Another thing
    we’re obsessed with is photos of ourselves – selfies – taken with our mobile phones or tablets and posted on social networks.
    What could be more narcissistic?
    Some people hate selfies but many of us love them, and we probably all have friends who constantly post selfies on Facebook
    or Instagram. However, psychologists believe that people who post selfies might have low self-esteem. What’s more, a recent
    study has shown that those people who post lots of selfies may have problems with intimacy and may be incapable of forming
    deep or close relationships with friends or colleagues. Our obsession with selfies reveals an inability to relate to other people
    properly.
    But why are some of us so fascinated by selfies? Scientists have known for a long time that, despite having mirrors in our
    houses, we humans don’t have a clear idea of what we really look like. Another experiment demonstrates that we think we are
    more attractive than we actually are. When we are shown various photos of our face, treated digitally to make us look better
    or worse, as well as a photo of our face that has not been changed, we are incapable of identifying the unaltered photo. We
    always choose a photo showing a better-looking version of ourselves.
    So we love selfies because we think we’re gorgeous but our obsession with selfies reveals an inability to have close
    relationships with other people. Maybe we should just stick to posting photos of cute cats!

    A Say whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. Explain WHY using your own words OR finding evidence in the
    text.
    1 The author is not impressed by some of the fashions that social media have created.

    2 Posting selfies may reveal a negative side of someone’s personality.

    3 As humans, we’re absolutely sure of what we look like in reality.

    4 The other experiment showed that we think other people are more attractive than us.

    B In your own words and based on the ideas from the text, answer the following questions.
    1 What is the author’s opinion about posting photos of cats on social networks?

    2 How did scientists find out that we think we’re more attractive than we really are?

    3 Why does the author say we should ‘stick to posting photos of cute cats!’?

    C Find in the text words which mean the same as the ones below:
    1 many different types of (paragraph 1) 4 unchanged (paragraph 3)

    2 belief and confidence in your own ability (paragraph 2) 5 very beautiful (paragraph 4)

    3 unable to do something (paragraph 2)

    D Complete the second sentence. It must mean the same as the first sentence.
    1 It is forbidden to use social networks on school computers.
    We .
    2 ‘Can you find the unaltered photo of yourself?’ asked the scientist.
    The scientist .

    Out & About 1 – PHOTOCOPIABLE © Cambridge University Press 2015

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