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Answer B:
My friends know that the Internet hasn’t really become a friend of mine. From fake blogs
supposedly written by me, to rather cool doctored photos of me to the run-of-the-mill gossip
blogs that manufacture more lies than people in politics and showbiz combined. I gave up my
Facebook account as a New Year’s resolution. With the Facebook party over, I still had my wee
Twitter account. I had 500 followers when I started paying attention to it and later it grew to the
thousands. Dinner conversation would be about how many followers people had. I realized my
2,500 was considered low. It’s nothing like my friend’s account, which has enough followers to
overthrow a president. When I started, I promised myself I wouldn’t be tweeting idiotic things like
how my instant noodles taste like. Then I started having conversations and debates on Twitter
until 4 a.m. every day. Meanwhile, I hadn’t finished reading my dusty novel from last month. I
was too busy tweeting to my followers that I was having a manicure. I find this sad and useless.
Thus, I closed my account and bid goodbye to my followers. I then just surrendered myself to
using the Internet to send emails and to research for homework. It took me such time to realize
that flaunting my life online is pointless.

Points to emphasize in answering:

If you do not use the Internet, try to give details as to why you don’t.
[example: As my friends know, the Internet hasn’t really become a friend
of mine.]

Cite an instance how the Internet has affected your life.

Conclude the discussion.
[example: It took me such time to realize that flaunting my life online is pointless.]

Vocabulary

doctored - edited
run-of-the-mill - ordinary
manufacture - produce
wee - small
overthrow - oust
idiotic - foolish
manicure - hand pampering
flaunting - showing off

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