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Reply Thu 15 Jun, 2023 10:52 pm
Read this passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The Facebook party that became a riot
It began as a plan for a very normal 16th birthday party. Merthe Weusthuis wanted a
quiet celebration with a small group of friends in her family home in the small Dutch
town of Haren. Like many teenagers, she decided to send out invitations via a social
network site. But Merthe made one big mistake: she used open-access settings on
Facebook, so it wasn’t just her friends who could see details of the event, lots of
strangers could too.
The number of invitation acceptances quickly snowballed into an avalanche. Not
marking the event as ‘private’ meant the electronic invitation was eventually seen by
240,000 people, of whom 30,000 confirmed online that they planned to attend. To make
matters worse, an unauthorised campaign was launched to promote the party by means
of a dedicated website and Twitter account, which received hundreds of thousands of
hits. The party became known as ‘Project X Haren’ after the 2012 American film Project
X in which three high school students throw a birthday party that spins out of control.
Video trailers for Merthe’s party were produced, with scenes from Project X edited in,
and they were posted on YouTube. T-shirts featuring Merthe’s face were also made, all
without her knowledge or consent.
Even after Merthe’s parents had cancelled the party, the publicity didn’t stop. Local
media reported on the forthcoming event and teenagers turned up to have their picturestaken outside the Weusthuis family home. On the evening the party was to have taken
place, about 5,000 teenagers began gathering in Haren, many outside the Weusthuis
house. When it became clear that there was nothing to gatecrash, violence broke out and
500 riot police equipped with helmets, shields and batons were brought in to control the
crowd. Shops in the centre of Haren were vandalised and looted, journalists were
attacked, cars were set on fire or overturned and street signs and lamp posts were
damaged.
However, Facebook was also involved in the clean-up effort in the days after the riot. A
group called ‘Project Clean-X Haren’ was set up to gather and organise volunteers.
Another group named ‘Suspect-X Haren’ was created to help police identify and arrest
the rioters by sharing photos and videos of the event.
A number of other 'Facebook parties’ have spiralled out of control, including the 16th
birthday party of British teenager Bradley McAnulty in April 2012. Bradley had not
posted details of the event on the internet, and had been careful to ask his friends not to,
but somehow the news leaked out and appeared on Blackberry Messenger as well as
Facebook. More than 400 gatecrashers invaded his family home in Poole, Dorset,
causing extensive damage.
1 Merthe Weusthuis made the mistake of ___.
a. using Facebook to organise her birthday celebration
b. letting her friends invite their friends to her party
c. inviting people she did not really like to her party
d. not checking who could see her online invitation
2 The number of confirmed the guests ___.
a. did not reflect the reality
b. got out of control almost immediatelyc. was manageable until the Twitter campaign
d. suddenly shot up when people started watching the YouTube video
trailers
3 'Project X Haren' was named after ___.
a. another party in the same area
b. the group who promoted the party online
c. a party video on YouTube
d. a film
4 Local journalists ___.
a. gave the event publicity
b. tried to discourage people from attending
c. gathered outside the house
d. started the violence
5 Violence broke out when ___.
a. teenagers arrived in large numbers
b. people realized there was no party
c. rival gangs turned up
d. gatecrashers saw the riot police
6 After the riot, Facebook was used to ___.
a. plan another party in Haren
b. send messages of support to Merthe and her family
c. help rioters get in contact with each otherd. help the town recover from the violence
7 Bradley McAnulty ___.
a. made the same mistake as Merthe Weusthuis
b. sent invites via Blackberry Messenger
c. had taken steps to prevent problems
d. posted details of the event online
8 In Bradley McAnulty's case, ___.
a. only a small number of people arrived
b. the gatecrashers were well behaved
c. the gatecrashers caused a lot of damage to his home
d. the gatecrashers caused a lot of damage to his town
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Reply Fri 16 Jun, 2023 01:20 am
@tungkang,
Could you be any lazier?

All the answers are there. Read the passage yourself and do your own homework.
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