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To snoop, or not to snoop? Some experts claim that parents have a duty to ha

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问题     To snoop, or not to snoop? Some experts claim that parents have a duty to hack into their children’s social media to ensure their safety. But this suggestion is accused by many of violating children’s privacy. Should parents monitor their children’s social media? The following are opinions from two sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:
    1. summarize briefly the opinions from both sides;
    2. give your comment.
    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Parents
    Nicolas: I think that we do because what if our kids are getting threatened or stalked and they are too scared to tell us and then it would be too late to fix. Also I think yes because the Internet is very dangerous and we should help.
    Kelly: I believe that technology should be part of family life with the sort of rules and expectations that you have for table manners or bedtimes. I wouldn’t demand that my children hand over their phones for me to check, but I would expect to be their Facebook friend, and to have ongoing conversations with them about potential dangers. I also think it’s my role as a parent to keep up-to-date with any new technology that my children might want to use.
    Emma, mother to Laura, 17: A couple of years ago, I discovered Laura had self-harmed. I knew something was very wrong but she wouldn’t open up to me and refused to accept she had a problem. Out of desperation I logged on to her computer when she was at school and found her Facebook page. It was so dark and depressing that I realized she was clinically depressed. I made a doctor’s appointment for her. It took a while for Laura to accept that my "snooping" had been necessary but I would advise any parent to do the same.
Children
    Olivia: Obviously parents don’t trust their kids. If they can’t trust them, they may as well completely run their lives, telling them what not to do online, what to eat, doing this isn’t helping. If they can’t trust their kids, they’ll never learn for themselves what’s right or what’s not right. Teenagers and parents relationships should be based on trust.
    Lois: Parents should trust their teenagers not to do inappropriate things online, and on social media. If they don’t trust each other, then there will be a problem in their bond. If there is a weak bond, then there will be a chasm between them. They will have a hard time understanding each other and then they will get into arguments and fights. This is a critical time in teenagers’ life. If they learn that this is how to treat their own children in the future then the cycle of the arguments and fights will continue.
    David: Plain bad parenting. If children do not have the confidence to open up to their parents about being cyber bullied or think parents should not "spy" on their children, parents should work on building the relationship between them, making kids at ease to confide in them more.
    Dania: Children do not have access to the parents’ social media, so why should parents have access to their children’s social media? If parents think there is something wrong they can talk about it; there is no need to invade children’s privacy.
    Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
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答案                 Should Parents Monitor Their Children’s Social Media?
    Now that children have greater access than ever to the Internet, not just at home, but on mobile devices wherever they go, parents are facing a new set of dilemmas: should they monitor children’s social media to keep an eye, or should teens be allowed a realm of privacy away from the prying eyes of parents?
    Quite a number of people insist on the necessity of parents monitoring children’s social media. To begin with, they maintain that the Internet poses many a threat to the children while they interact with others via social media, therefore it’s the parents’ responsibility to keep track of their children’s online activity for the sake of their safety. Secondly, many children especially teenagers may restrain from their parents while articulating their concerns and worries on their social media, so social media is the only access through which parents can be aware of their children’s authentic feelings. However, others hold views the other way around. They strongly oppose to parents’ monitoring children’s social media, arguing that it intrudes children’s privacy. Besides, in order to be conscious of their children’s whereabouts, parents should resort to other effective measures, such as building a mutually trusted relationship, rather than snooping on their social media.
    Balancing the views from the two sides, I’m inclined to agree with the latter one. On the one hand, I don’t think it’s a wise move to monitor children’s social media as a precaution against potential danger. If parents rely on technology to monitor their kids or prevent them from engaging in online risks, they are getting a false sense of security. Any determined kid can defeat any technology parents put out there. Instead of knowing more about children, parents are pushing them away by monitoring their privacy.
    On the other hand, clever and intuitive, if teens want to circumvent the intention of a social network to bend it to their needs, they will. Therefore, instead of using technology to snoop on children’s digital activities, it will be more beneficial for parents to discuss boundaries and appropriate online behavior with their children and to dole out features sparingly if children are abiding by the rules.
    To conclude, parents’ monitoring their children’s social media results in the estranging relationship between them, therefore some open talks with the children pinning down the rules regarding to using social media are more conducive to the protection of the children’s safety.
解析 本题讨论父母是否应该监控子女的网络社交媒体的问题，属于社会生活类话题。本题要求简要概括所给材料中的两种观点，并发表自己的看法。在具体的写作过程中，考生可以开篇点明社会现象，并提出论题：父母是否应该监控子女的网络社交媒体；第二段简要阐述正反两种观点；第三段重点阐述自己对这一问题的看法，并说明理由；最后一段总结全文，重申观点。
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