Fiche de révision : The Impact of Social Media

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Avantages et risques des réseaux sociaux
2. Réseaux sociaux et adolescents
3. Vocabulaire des influenceurs
4. Devenir influenceur
5. Le modal would

📖 1. Avantages et risques des réseaux sociaux

📝 Points essentiels

• The pros of social media include: communication, finding things you like, access to information, distraction, meeting new people online, learning, growing your money through businesses, advertising and marketing, taking and sharing content, accessing popular trends and music, buying things

• The cons of social media include: missing file issues, spending too much time online because it is addictive, cyberbullying, exposure of personal information and privacy to hacking, constant comparison with perfect bodies and lives, scams

💡 Astuce mémo

Communication et information s’opposent à addiction, cyberharcèlement et arnaques.

📖 2. Réseaux sociaux et adolescents

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Algorithm : a complex set of rules and calculations that personalizes and prioritizes social-media content for each user according to their preferences and behaviour

★ À maîtriser

• The United States is worried about the presence of social media apps for teenagers and wants to act against their spread.

• 20% of 13- to 24-year-olds use Snapchat.

Compléments

📌 Social media are compared to gambling for children and teenagers.

📌 Because social-media resources come from advertising, algorithms can make social media go beyond teenagers' control.

💡 Astuce mémo

Algorithmes personnalisés → contenu priorisé → contrôle réduit des adolescents.

📖 3. Vocabulaire des influenceurs

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• niche : a specialised area
• expertise : expert knowledge or skill in an area
• audience : the people who watch or follow a public event, such as a film or concert
• trend : something that is popular right now
• catchy : attractive and easily remembered
• consistent : doing something in the same way over time
• to charge : to ask someone to pay
• bio : a short introduction of a person and is short for biography

📖 4. Devenir influenceur

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Social media influencer : a person who influences followers' decisions through a relationship with their audience and knowledge and expertise in a particular area

★ À maîtriser

• Influencers can persuade people to buy products, and companies use them as a direct way to reach customers.

• Some influencers charge up to $25,000 for one social-media post.

• 🔄 To become an influencer:

  1. choose a niche
  2. choose a medium and write an interesting bio
  3. post regularly and consistently
  4. tell an interesting story
  5. make your content easy to find

Compléments

📌 Influencers can make their content easier to find by publicising posts on different social media, using hashtags and catchy titles, and posting patiently until their following gradually increases.

💡 Astuce mémo

Niche → support et bio → publication régulière → histoire → visibilité.

📖 5. Le modal would

★ À maîtriser

📌 In English, would is a modal verb followed by a verb without to; it can express wishes, polite suggestions or conditional actions.

• The expression would like usually expresses a wish or intention: “I would like to speak English fluently.”

📌 A conditional sentence uses if to introduce the condition and would to express the resulting hypothetical action: “I would do it if I could.”

Compléments

• In a question, would like generally makes a polite suggestion: “Would you like to join us for dinner?”

• Would is often contracted to ’d in spoken English, as in “I’d like to visit the US one day.”

💡 Astuce mémo

Would like exprime un souhait, tandis que would + verbe peut exprimer une condition.

📊 Tableaux de synthèse

Pros et cons des réseaux sociaux