The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.10 - Skills Review for the textbook Focus 4 (2nd edition) - Workbook with authors Daniel Brayshaw from Pearson Education
Question
Read the article again and answer the questions.
Answer
Some possible consequences of spending too much time on photo sharing apps are poor mental health, bullying, lack of sleep and depression.
The writer is not surprised that we see things online that are not true because we live in a world of fake news and distorted truths.
You can increase the number of likes you get by subscribing to a free service where you complete a social action in exchange for likes.
Influencers get paid in relation to how many followers they have, so may pay a fee in order to get more.
Having a lot of letters and numbers in your username suggests the account could be fake.
People use the ‘no filter’ hashtag because most images you see online are enhanced in some way.
The article gives the example of only showing a small section of a room, or a carefully selected part of a view to highlight that things are not always what they seem.
Experts would like the number of followers and likes to be made private or deactivated, as well as a sign when an image has been airbrushed.