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The document discusses how your online life is permanent and leaves a permanent digital footprint. It talks about big data, tattoos, and immortality being connected through things like electronic tattoos and facial recognition. It provides advice about being careful what you post online and thinking twice before sharing private information publicly since anything shared can influence your reputation permanently.

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ESL Brains Your Online Life Is Permanent SV 2608

The document discusses how your online life is permanent and leaves a permanent digital footprint. It talks about big data, tattoos, and immortality being connected through things like electronic tattoos and facial recognition. It provides advice about being careful what you post online and thinking twice before sharing private information publicly since anything shared can influence your reputation permanently.

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Your online life is permanent

1. Discuss the questions.


• How do you think big data, tattoos and immortality can be connected?
• What might an electronic tattoo be?
• What information about you can be found on the internet?

2. Match the words with the definitions.

distracted flip figure out immortality


threaten tie shout turn out
a) express strong emotions shout

b) be known or discovered finally and surprisingly turn out

c) the ability to live forever immortality


d) tell someone that you will kill them, hurt them or cause them problems threaten

e) learn something figure

f) join, connect tie

g) turn upside down flip

h) unable to concentrate because of something distracted

3. Match the words from the two columns to create collocations. Then, put them
into the sentences below.
a) utter 1 1) a word
b) indiscreet 4 2) mistakes
c) make 2 3) your way into/out of something
d) provide information 4) question
e) be familiar 5 5) with somebody
f) charm 3 6) information
provide information
a) We ………………………. about ourselves on social media without thinking
about the consequences.
indiscreet question
b) Asking a woman about her age is an ………………………. .
c) The face recognition system is not perfect and it can sometimes
make mistakes
………………………. .
familiar with
d) I’m not ………………………. this singer. Can you tell me which band he is in?
utter a word
e) This is my secret project so don’t ………………………. about this to anyone.

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Your online life is permanent

charm their way


f) Some people can be rational in a crisis and ……………………….
out of trouble using
their magnetic personality.

4. Watch a video [https://youtu.be/Fu1C-oBdsMM] and answer the questions.


a) What examples of electronic tattoos did the speaker mention?
b) What does the Facedeals camera do?
c) How does the speaker change Andy Warhol’s theory?
d) Which characters from Greek mythology did the speaker mention?
e) Who was Jorge Luis Borges?

5. Match each character from Greek mythology with one word and explain
what the connection is.

apple reflection rock underworld

a) Sisyphus c) Atalanta
b) Orpheus d) Narcissus

6. Watch a part of the video (03:22 – 05:20) again and check your answers.

7. Discuss the questions.


• How large is your electronic tattoo? What information do you share with the
world and where do you do that?
• How can Juan Enriquez’s pieces of advice help us?
o be careful what you post because it influences your reputation
o don’t look too far into the past of those you love
o think twice before posting anything
o don’t fall in love with your own image
• How do you understand Warhol’s words: “In the future, everybody will be world
famous for 15 minutes”? Is this good or bad for us?
• Do you think people are not anonymous online? How can we be anonymous
on the internet?
• What kind of data should people want to keep private?
• What problems can come from being immortal online?

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Your online life is permanent Copyrights by ESL Brains 1. Discuss the questions. • How do you think big data, tattoos an
Your online life is permanent Copyrights by ESL Brains f) Some people can be rational in a crisis and ………………………. trouble

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