"Internet Culture..." (NewsELA)

Read the following statement.

The guidelines for what is socially acceptable change as the formats for communication evolve.

Which detail from the article provides the BEST support for the statement above?

• A. Unlike formal language, which can be taught with practice and a good instructor, digital communication can be full of mysterious clues. The person on the other end of the call, text or email may or may not easily understand them.

• B. "As soon as people aren't talking face to face, the first thing that gets lost is some of the richness of the nonverbal communication," Ivory said. "People immediately fill that gap by trying to approximate it," either by using emoji or sending gifs.

• C. "We used to pick up the phone and say Happy Birthday, Happy New Year's and Merry Christmas to each other. Nowadays, it is appropriate and in good form to send those via text," the founder of a nationwide manners training institute said.

• D. Ivory said that the only way to understand the techno-talk rules is to fully engage yourself in the culture. There are built-in drawbacks to over-adopting "chillaxed" methods of communication, though.

Read the following paragraph from the section "Social Media."

Ivory said that every generation and every small group of friends has its own slang and customs. Internet culture has given birth to technology dependent people who have their own unique set of correspondence rules, he said.

What conclusion is BEST supported by the paragraph above?

• A. The Internet culture has created a list of customs that is unlike the slang and customs of previous generations.

• B. Technology-dependent people have more difficulty creating their own correspondence rules than people have in the past.

• C. Small groups of friends have slowly changed the types of rules we have on the Internet, but they have done it over several generations.

• D. People have always formed their own communication rules, but the Internet has led to the creation of another version of those rules.

Read the article's introduction [paragraphs 1-2]. How does the introduction develop the MAIN idea?

• A. by highlighting the convenience that technology provides while pointing out that it also causes new communication challenges

• B. by listing the many ways that technology has made connecting with others quicker and more efficient than ever before

• C. by comparing and contrasting several types of communication technologies and each of their rules for correspondence

• D. by explaining that technology has consistently presented problems with communication that have been difficult to solve

What is the MAIN reason the author includes the section “One-Word Message K Is Pet Peeve”?

• A. to present two people who have opposing views about how digital communication rules should work

• B. to illustrate how people have solved some of the problems they have encountered with digital communication

• C. to suggest that most people want to avoid digital communication because the rules are too complicated

• D. to provide examples of common complaints that people have about how others communicate digitally