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LAS REDES SOCIALES - Parte 1/2.
Primera parte de un interesante artículo acerca de las ventajas y desventajas de las redes sociales, un producto de la tecnología que casi todos utilizamos hoy en día. Para tu comodidad, intercalamos un vocabulario bilingüe a lo largo del audio-texto.
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SOCIAL NETWORKS - Part 1/2 |
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Welcome to "This is America"
in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our
program: the world of social media.
people use social networking sites to share ideas, opinions and interests.
Millions post comments, videos, pictures, links and other content, or just
follow what other users post. |
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networking sites: sitios de redes sociales; to share: para compartir; millions post comments: millones de mensajes; links: enlaces; users: usuarios; post: colocan; |
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People reconnect with old friends and classmates, and make new connections. Social networks are all about connecting friends and friends of friends, just like in the physical world. Social media is a way to communicate one to many. But sites generally have a way for users to also send private messages and to control access to their pages. |
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reconnect: se vuelve a relacionar; classmates: compañeros de estudio; just like: exactamente como; a way of: una forma de; |
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Social media is still young and evolving. Take the example of Facebook. It was launched in 2004 as a social network just for Harvard students. Then it opened up to all colleges. Then high schools got their own private pages. Now anyone can join. Facebook said it had over 250 million active users as of July. And not everyone is happy about that. Karey is a student at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. |
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still: todavía; evolving: en evolución, en desarrollo; was launched: fue lanzado/a; opened up: se extendió; join: unirse, formar parte; about that: en tal sentido; |
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KAREY: "I have kept my
mom off of Facebook. She wants one, I said 'No, you can't have one.' It started
out as a college thing and then high school students got it. The value of it
decreases to me with like the wider amount of people. Like the older population
that gets it, I'm not OK with that."
Ekin Oz is a seventeen-year-old exchange student from Turkey. She does not think
older people should be on Facebook.
EKIN OZ: "I think it's so silly because like it's something for teenagers." |
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kept off: mantenido alejada; started out as: empezó como; the value of it decreases to me: su valor se reduce para mí; like the wider amount of: como la gran mayoría de; the older population: la población de más edad; should be: debieran estar; |
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But a lot of older people would
disagree that social networks are just for teenagers. About eighty percent of
American adults use the Internet. A recent online survey found that half of them
now belong to social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. Forrester Research
says four out of five online adults use social media at least once a month. That
includes almost everyone age eighteen to thirty-four. Now, the fastest growing
group of users are people thirty-five and older. |
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would disagree that: estarían en desacuerdo en que; online survey: encuesta de Internet; half of them: la mitad de ellos; belong: pertenecen; four out of five: cuatro de cada cinco; at least: por lo menos; the fastest growing group: el grupo de más rápido crecimiento; |
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That would include thirty-nine-year-old Evan Falchuk. He says he first heard about social media two or three years ago at a business meeting.
EVAN FALCHUK: "What I was really surprised by when I first joined was how many people were there who I knew.'" |
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would include: incluiría a; what I was really surprised by: lo primero que realmente me sorprendió; I first joined: me uní por primera vez; |
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Evan Falchuk is a lawyer. But he is president and chief operating officer of Best Doctors, a medical company in Boston, Massachusetts. He likes to use LinkedIn, a social networking site for professionals.
EVAN FALCHUK: "I mean, I travel all over the world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards from them. And you get back to your office and look at the business card and you say 'Who was that again? And what did we talk about?' I try to write notes, but it's very hard. Whereas if you connect with them on LinkedIn, now I've got not only the person's name and contact information, but I know what their prior jobs were. I know who they are connected to who I might know. You have a much richer way of connecting with this person than you otherwise would." |
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lawyer: abogado; chief operating officer (COO): responsable de control operativo; all over the: por todo el; dozens: docenas; very hard: muy engorroso; whereas: mientras que; what their prior jobs were: cuáles eran sus ocupaciones anteriores; who I might know: a quien podría conocer; much richer way: forma mucho más enriquecedora; otherwise: de otro modo; |
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Evan Falchuk uses Facebook to connect with friends and family members. But not all share his enthusiasm for social media.
EVAN FALCHUK: "My wife is a little bit less of a social media user than I am. So I like to share things about what's going on. And we like to go out to dinner to different places, for example, and I like to share 'Hey we're at this place and this is what we had and it was good.' And then she is more private and says 'Well, I don't really want everybody to know where we are and what we're doing.'" |
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family members: familiares; not all: no todos; little bit less: bastante menos; |
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For couples in long-distance relationships, the main ways to communicate used to be phone calls, letters and visits. Now, they have texting, e-mail, instant messaging and video chat. Patricia is a student at Radford University in Virginia.
PATRICIA: "I was in a long distance relationship for about a year, and Skype really helped because you could actually see the other person when you are talking." |
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for couples: para las parejas; relationships: relaciones; main ways to: principales formas de; used to be: solían ser; texting: mensajes de texto; actually see: ver realmente (físicamente); |
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Skype is an Internet video and phone service that was just in the news. Its current owner eBay agreed to sell a sixty-five percent share to a group of investors for two billion dollars. Ekin Oz uses Facebook and Skype to stay in touch with family and friends back in Turkey.
EKIN OZ: "I'm using Facebook to contact with my friends, I'm using Skype to contact with my family. Because I miss my family so much, I want to see them, their faces. It's much more important than friends." |
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current owner: actual dueño; agreed to sell: aceptó vender; investors: inversores; stay in touch: mantenerse en contacto; back in Turkey: al regresar a Turquía; |
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But even a simple text message can mean a lot. Dan in Virginia is twenty years old. He will be in a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend after joining the Marines. He says texting is good because it lets you communicate whenever you have time. Not everyone in the military, however, is at ease with social media. The Marine Corps has banned the use of sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter on its computers. But the ban does not limit access on other computers. |
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can mean: puede significar; military: ejército; however: sin embargo; at ease with: cómodo/a con; has banned: ha prohibido; the ban: la prohibición, el "baneo"; |
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Many service members use social networks to communicate with their families or with the public. The Defense Department has been writing a policy for all of the military on the use of social networking sites. Defense officials say they are aiming for a balance that will not compromise the security of operations or military networks. |
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service members: miembros de las fuerzas armadas; Defense Deparment: Departamento de Defensa; policy: normas de comportamiento; aiming for a balance: aspirando a un equilibrio; that will not compromise: que no comprometa. |
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Este artículo se completará en el próximo boletín. |
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