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LAS REDES SOCIALES - Parte 2/2.
Última 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 2/2 |
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Public
officials recognize that social media has changed the way people
communicate. The White House, for example, held a live
discussion last Tuesday on its Facebook page. People watched and
commented on a speech by President Obama that was broadcast to
students nationwide from a Virginia high school. Before the
speech, a student at the school asked for advice about how to
get the president's job. |
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held: mantuvo; live: en vivo; speech: discurso; broadcast: transmitido; nationwide: en todo el país; asked for advice: solicitó consejos; about how to get: acerca de cómo lograr; |
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BARACK
OBAMA: "First of all, I want everybody here to be careful about
what you post on Facebook because in the YouTube age, whatever
you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life.
And when you're young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid
stuff. And I've been hearing a lot about young people who – you
know, they're posting stuff on Facebook, and then suddenly they
go apply for a job and somebody has done a search and, so,
that's some practical political advice for you right there." |
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to be careful about what: tener cuidado con lo que; whatever you do: todo lo que hagas; will be pulled up again later: puede afectarte más adelante; stupid stuff: tonterías, tonteras; they go apply for a job: van a postularse para un empleo; |
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Experts
say a good rule to remember is not to post anything you would
not want your mother to see. But what if your mother – or father
– is one of your "friends," as in a friend you accepted on
Facebook? Some parents use social media to communicate with
their kids and to monitor their activities. This, in turn, has
led to myparentsjoinedfacebook.com. This is a site for sharing
and laughing at things that parents have posted. |
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what if: qué ocurre si; to monitor: para controlar; in turn: a su debido tiempo; for sharing: para compartir; laughing at: reirse de; have posted: han escrito; |
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Ekin Oz,
the exchange student from Turkey, has a different concern about
privacy. She worries about cybercrime and the information that
could be gathered about a person from different Web sites. |
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concern: preocupación; about privacy: sobre la privacidad; cybercrime: delitos informáticos; could be gathered: podría recopilarse; |
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EKIN OZ:
"I'm scared of copying my personal information to use, like my
photos they can use for things which is not good for me, and I'm
concerned about that. If someone write my name on Google they
can find one picture from Facebook or something, but is it safe?" |
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I'm scared of copying: tengo miedo de copiar; like: como; safe: seguro; |
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By now
most parents know about the dangers of sex offenders using
social networks. But the computer security company F-Secure
points out the risk even in posting information like vacation
plans. Someone who wants to break into the house will then know
when people are away. |
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sex offenders: delincuentes o transgresores sexuales; points out: resalta, destaca; risk: riesgo; even in posting: aún al colocar; break into: entrar por la fuerza a; are away: se encuentran fuera de casa; |
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And then there is the time issue. Jenn is a student at
Appalachian State in North Carolina. |
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the time issue: el problema de la frecuencia de consultas; |
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JENN: "I'm
probably on Facebook a lot more that I should be. I'll go on
sometimes to check it and then get right back off. And then
maybe ten minutes later I'll be like 'Oh, well, I need to talk
to so-and-so,' and so then I'll go back on it, every thirty
minutes or something." |
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a lot more than I should be: mucho más de lo que debería; I'll go on: me conecto, ingreso; get right back off: desconectarme; I'll be like: me ocurre algo así como; so-and-so: tal-y-cual; I'll go back on it: vuelvo a conectarme; every thirty minutes: cada treinta minutos; |
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And how
often does her classmate Karey check her page? |
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how often?: ¿con qué frecuencia?; classmate: compañero de clase; |
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KAREY:
"If it's like during school when things are busy, once maybe for
like twenty minutes max. But then if it's like during the summer
and I'm really bored, I don't have anything else to do, then it
might be a little longer." |
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like: algo así como; max (maximum): como máximo; bored: aburrido; anything else to do: otra cosa que hacer; it might be: podría ser; |
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And Ekin? |
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EKIN:
"I check my account at least one time a day. If I talk with my
family, it's like an hour. But if I don't talk to them, just ten
or twelve minutes at most." |
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at least: por lo menos; one time a day: una vez por día; like an hour: como una hora; at most: como máximo; |
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And what
about Evan Falchuk – a frequent commentator on social media. How
often does he check for updates? |
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what about: qué ocurre con; frequent commentator: forista frecuente; check for updates: revisa si hay actualizaciones; |
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EVAN
FALCHUK: "It kind of happens in the background, because I have
an iPhone which I love. And the iPhone has applications on it
for each of the social media that we've been talking about. And
so I'm frequently looking at it or typing stuff or posting
something. It feels like it's something I do, continuously." |
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it kind of happens in the background: esto te pasa como algo de fondo (necesario); applications: programas para móviles; that we've been talking about: de los que hemos estado hablando; typing stuff: tipeando cualquier cosa; posting: subiendo a Internet; continuously: constantemente; |
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Some
people like to write long entries in their blogs. On Twitter,
each message, or tweet, is limited to one hundred forty
characters. Market researchers at Pear Analytics say they are
big fans of Twitter. But in a recent study they declared that
forty percent of the tweets captured over a two-week period were
"pointless babble." Evan Falchuk would agree that some people
write things like "I am now sitting in the doctor's waiting room." |
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entries: anotaciones; blogs: sitios web donde las personas publican sus diarios personales; tweet: mensaje (en Twitter); market researchers: los analistas de mercado; a two-week period: un término de dos semanas; pointless babble: pura cháchara (conversaciones sin sentido alguno); |
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EVAN
FALCHUK: "But most of the people on Twitter that I see are
actually trying to have a substantive discussion – a real
conversation about topics that are interesting to them. So for
me personally, I'm in the health care business and in America
we're having this very important debate about health care. And
I'm connected with hundreds – actually I think maybe thousands –
of health care professionals or people with an opinion on health
care or doctors or others who are constantly posting things to
do with what's going on in health care." |
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substantive: substancial, interesante; health care: atención sanitaria; debate: debate, discusión; to do with: relacionadas con; |
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Some
people find answers through social media. Others find love. A
woman named Georgina says she used a social dating site because
she was looking "for a higher quality of a mate." She was still
looking when we talked to her. But she thinks the new
technologies are a great way to communicate – as long as people
still show traditional respect for each other. |
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through: a través de; dating site: página de contactos personales; mate: pareja; as long as: en tanto y cuanto; for each other: mutuo, recíproco; |
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GEORGINA: "Back in the 1980s when I was dating without computers,
cell phones, text messaging, instant messaging, people had to be
more organized. They had to be home, and they had to stick to
their plans, because you had no way of communicating with
someone once you left for your destination.
Nowadays, with the extremely fast mode of communication, people
have the ability to be lazy and spontaneous and not organized,
because they can text you at the last minute or call you
wherever you are and say 'I'm not coming, change of plans.'" |
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back in the 1980s: retrocediendo a la década del ochenta; to stick to: ajustarse a; once you left for: una vez que partías para; nowadays: hoy en día; fast mode: modalidad veloz; to be lazy: de ser perezoso; spontaneous: espontáneo; at the last minute: a último momento; wherever you are: donde te encuentres; change of plans: cambio de planes. |
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Our
program was written by Nancy Steinbach and Marisel Salazar, and
produced by Caty Weaver. I'm Faith Lapidus. and I am Bob Doughty. |
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