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ENGLISH DEBATE

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GROUP 1:
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Aditya Indra D.C as the first speaker of affirmative team


Dewi Nur Hidayah as the second speaker of affirmative team
Dinda Septiana as the second speaker of negative team
Gilang N.G as the third speaker of affirmative team
Hanisa Rizkamilna F. as the third speaker of negative team(11)
Junani Linggar R.A. as the first speaker of negative team
Mirza Aulia Rahma as a moderator

Moderator:

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Good morning Ladies and Gentleman. Before starting this debate, first of all, lets thank to God
because of His blessing we are able to attend here. And now, I will read the sequence of this
debate. This debate contains 3 sessions:
1. The first one is opening and its still going on right now.
2. The second session is introduction.
And now, I would like introduce the participants to you all. On the right side of me, there an
affirmative team and on my left side there a negative team.
3. Then, the third is question and answer session.
4. And the last session is closing.
Now, let the first speaker from affirmative team to explain the topic. The time is yours.
First speaker of affirmative team:
Thanks for the time that given to us to participate in this debate. Let me introduce my team:
1. My name is Aditya Indra Dwi Cahyanto as the first speaker. And Ill deliver why we chose
this topic.
2. And my friend, Dewi Nur Hidayah as second speaker. She will deliver the arguments in the
pro side.
3. And the last is Gilang as the third speaker. He will deliver the conclusion.
We choose the topic of social network because nowadays social networking is very popular.
There are many positive and negative impacts from this site in the internet. After discuss this
topic, we hope that we can increase the positive side and vanished the bad effect.
Moderator:
Thank you. Thats the opinion from affirmative team. And its time for the first speaker of
negative team to gives your opinion. The time is yours.
First speaker of negative team:
Thank you. First of all, let me introduce my team:
1. My name is Junani Linggar as the first speaker. Ill deliver the limit of the topic.
2. There is my friend, Dinda Septiana as the second speaker. She will deliver the arguments in
the contra side.
3. And the last is Hanisa Rizkamilna as the third speaker. She will deliver the conclusion.
The social network is a social structure made up of individuals or organizations which are tied or
connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship,
common interest, financial exchange, dislike sexual relationship, or relationships of beliefs,
knowledge or prestige. Actually, we never realize that actually the social network brings us to the
bad life. It has a lot of disadvantages especially in education and lifestyle sectors.

Moderator:
Okay, thats the opinion from negative team. The next turn is from the second speaker of
affirmative team to gives your arguments. The time is yours.
Second speaker of affirmative team:
All we know that social network has very much positive impact. In the educational sector, there
are some benefits, such as for the learning discussion media. Many students sometimes feel like
theyre not able to solve their task. So, they can solve their problem by discussions in social
network with their friends or another people who could help.
Another advantage is the social network can increase the students creativity. Given this social
networking teens accelerated to create a work to attract the attention of other users. That way,
students will be stimulated to hone their skills. For example by writing an article, or post on a
blog.
The third advantage is more quickly Information access. With the social networking, students
can exchange information among users. They will more easily access information that related to
academic and non-academic. An example is information about the existence of a contest,
information about school enrollment, and others.
Then, social network can train to communicate with each other. It will increase communication
among users, even enrich language skills because of the possibility to make contact with the
youth from different parts of the world.
The next benefit is to increase visual reasoning. It includes how individuals perceive and process
it visually until reaches a conclusion. Several studies have shown that individuals who received
training through computer simulations in the form will show better performance in practice in the
real world than individuals who do not perform the simulation. Today, teens are better at
multitasking than previous generations. This seems related to improving the visual information
that must be processed at the same time as when they interact with the internet.
From the lifestyle sectors we can also find a lot of advantages from the social network. The first
one is to help building self-esteem. Through the social network, teens can learn attitude how to
communicate with other people well so they are not embarrassing their self. They are also can
practice to do positive things so their self-esteem not be underestimated.
Another benefit is to increase confidence. Social network can help teens to grow up into a person
that having high confidence in their life. Did you ever know why? Because they have been
accustomed to communicate with other friends in the social network, so they having no sense of
inferior.

The next is by join a group; they can develop a sense of independence and increase positive selfexpression. We know that for now, there are many kinds of groups that offer us to join them. It is
permitted if we make sure that the group brings the positive impact to our self. For example we
join on a group that has an activity for helping victims of natural disasters.
The last is social network can increase solidarity among users. Teens can communicate with
other users continuously, so there will be a high sense of brotherhood among them. Beside,
social network also can help to increase critical thinking and making decision.
Frequently involved in discussions among users can make teenagers think more critically. So that
in making decisions, teenagers can consider the pros and cons before they take the decisions.
Moderator:
Thank you. How about the arguments from negative team? For the second speaker of negative
team, the time is yours.
Second speaker of negative team:
Social network has many bad effect for teens. In education sectors, it can reduce time for study.
Through the Internet and open access social networking sites, students will forget the time. They
waste their time just that is in social networking. In the social network we can also fall on things
that are not good due to lack of supervision from parents. For example a view or transfer
images / video that should not be seen by teenagers.
Level of language comprehension becomes impaired. For teenagers there are no rules of spelling
and grammar on the social networking site .Thus making their own as they wish to communicate
with their own language without a care about good grammar in communicating. It is slowly but
surely killing the good communication skills in the real world interact but it also kills their
writing skills in accordance with standard and correct spelling in school. This is quite alarming
for the development of adolescents who should learn socialization with the environment instead
spend more time to surf in cyberspace with your friends on social networking community, which
on average discussing something that is not important. It makes ability of student interaction is
decreases.
In addition to educational use of social networking overload can also affect lifestyle for
teenagers. They become lazy to worship and communicate in the real world, because it is too
preoccupied with his new friends in social networking. Until at last abandon the obligations that
should be done by children. Social networking sites on the Internet allows users to have their
own world, this will make children more selfish. Children become aware and concerned with the
surrounding environment because their time is spent in front of the net. And eventually result in
less children do not even empathize with their real life environment. Their sensitivity to the
surrounding environment to be murdered his pleasure to his friends on social networking sites.
Internet access to open social networking sites clearly affect the financial condition of the

students is not uncommon for students to use their tuition money to go to the cafe just to open a
social networking site only. These can be categorized as a waste, because it uses the money
unproductively.
Social networking sites like fertile ground for Internet predators in crime. We never know if they
found a friend who is really well-intentioned people to make friends, and we never know if the
friend is giving real identity as a real world situation. When a child is 100% trusted friend on a
social networking site then this is very likely to jeopardize the situation of children from crimes
both physically and psychologically.
Moderator:
Okay, all arguments have been given. And now, please provide your conclusion. For the third
speaker of affirmative team, the time is yours.
Third speaker of affirmative team:

Moderator:
Thank you. What about the conclusion from negative team. Let the third speaker to provide your
conclusion. The time is yours.
Third speaker of negative team:
From those arguments, we can conclude that social network is really not good for teens. There
are many bad impacts not only in the education and lifestyle, but also in other life sector. Until
now, there are a lot of victim of the crime of the social networks. Almost whole teens waste their
time to do something that useless for their self. So it can destroy their brain work. And the worst
thing is it can destroy the moral attitude of our country.
Moderator:
Well done. The next session is question and answer. The first question is from affirmative time.
The time is yours.
First question from affirmative team:

Moderator:
Thank you. Is there anyone else?

Second question from affirmative team:

Moderator:
Okay. Its enough. For the negative please respond the questions. The time is yours.
First answer from negative team:

Moderator:
And lets see the respond for the second question. For the negative team, the time is yours.
Second answer from negative team:

Moderator:
Okay, the next turn is from negative team to ask some question for the affirmative team. The
time is yours.
First question from negative team:

Moderator:
Thank you. Is there anyone else? Okay, if theres no more question. For the affirmative team
please respond the question.
Answer from affirmative team:

Moderator:
Well. Question and answer session has been completed. Then, the next session is closing. From
this debate we know that actually the social networks have a lot of benefits if we use it properly.
Im as moderator apologizes if there any mistakes in my speech or behavior whether
intentionally or unintentionally. Thank you for your attention and see you next time.

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