单选题 For computer-savvy kids, sites like YouTube are just another means of communication. The Internet is organic to their lives. They"ve used it forever, they get all their info on it, and it feels like a very friendly medium. Yet easy access—and the illusion of instant intimacy that it creates—is what generates one of the downsides of online communities. "Instead of going to school and making friends by talking to someone," says Roni Cohen-Sandier, author of Stressed-Out Girls , "kids swap MySpace profiles and amass as many "friends" as they can as a way of assuring themselves and the world that they"re popular." You, like Paris Hilton, are now famous for being famous, albeit on a much smaller scale.
The inherent desire for attention gets pushed to the max when options for exposure are so easily available—and so far-reaching. "At one time you"d have to stand up on the cafeteria table to make a scene," says Halpern. "Now you just click a mouse." For kids who believe that the achievement bar has been raised too high, an easy alternative to being a winner is to aim for notoriety. Kids who didn"t make the team, earn an A, or score a lead in the play can instead get their share of accolades by being bad. The payoff is real: Cheerleaders and jocks who used to ignore you now stop to ask, "Was that your video I saw?"
Even embarrassing another person is a way to get yourself noticed. "A key component of humiliating others—looking powerful in front of someone you want to impress—has gotten infinitely easier," says Ron Zodkevitch, MD, a member of Family Circle"s Health Advisory Board. "You no longer have to confront the other person face-to-face to do it."
Teens have always been thrill-seekers, hut now their risk-taking is egged on by endless new videos and blogs of peers doing foolish or dangerous things. The sheer number of these peer insanities makes those activities seem normal and okay to kids. Typical kid-think can go like this: I see online brag photos of my friend drunk at a party. So next weekend I have to top that.
Our society"s obsession with 24—7 celebrity coverage pushes the notion that living your life in full view of others is a good idea. "If celebrities, who seem to be most kids" role models nowadays, don"t seem to care about privacy, why should they?" asks Michele Borba, PhD, author of 12 Simple Secrets Moms Know.
Interestingly, the relaxed feelings about privacy seem to go hand in hand with a new toughness. Asked whether critical comments about photos and videos posted online would be worrisome, 14-year-old Kendall Toole of Santa Clarita, California, responds, "People are entitled to their opinion. If you don"t want to hear what they think, you can just disable their comments."

单选题 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a reason for teens" obsession with posting their "acting bad" videos online?

单选题 The expression "egged on" in paragraph 4 can be best replaced by ______.

单选题 Which description does not fit the typical computer-savvy kid?

单选题 We can learn from the passage that ______.

单选题 What is the best title for the article?