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A considerable part of Facebook’s appeal stems from its miraculous fusion of distance with intimacy, or the illusion of distance
A considerable part of Facebook’s appeal stems from its miraculous fusion of distance with intimacy, or the illusion of distance
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2014-02-22
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A considerable part of Facebook’s appeal stems from its miraculous fusion of distance with intimacy, or the illusion of distance with the illusion of intimacy. Our online communities become engines of self-image, and self-image becomes the engine of community. The real danger with Facebook is not that it allows us to isolate ourselves, but that by mixing our appetite for isolation with our vanity, it threatens to alter the very nature of solitude. The new isolation is not of the kind that Americans once idealized, the lonesomeness of the proudly nonconformist, independent-minded, solitary stoic, or that of the astronaut who blasts into new worlds. Facebook’s isolation is a grind. What’s truly staggering about Facebook usage is not its volume — 750 million photographs uploaded over a single weekend — but the constancy of the performance it demands. More than half its users — and one of every 13 people on Earth is a Facebook user — log on every day. Among 18-to-34-year-olds, nearly half check Facebook minutes after waking up, and 28 percent do so before getting out of bed. The relentlessness is what is so new, so potentially transformative. Facebook never takes a break. We never take a break. Human beings have always created elaborate acts of self-presentation. But not all the time, not every morning, before we even pour a cup of coffee.
Nostalgia for the good old days of disconnection would not just be pointless, it would be hypocritical and ungrateful. But the very magic of the new machines, the efficiency and elegance with which they serve us, obscures what isn’t being served: everything that matters. What Facebook has revealed about human nature — and this is not a minor revelation — is that a connection is not the same thing as a bond, and that instant and total connection is no salvation, no ticket to a happier, better world or a more liberated version of humanity. Solitude used to be good for self-reflection and self-reinvention. But now we are left talking about who we are all the time, without ever really thinking about who we are. Facebook denies us a pleasure whose profundity we had underestimated: the chance to forget about ourselves for a while, the chance to disconnect.
Which of the following statements about the underside of Facebook is supported by the information contained in this passage?
选项
A、It imprisons people in the business of self-presentation.
B、It causes social disintegration.
C、It makes people vainer.
D、It makes people lonelier.
答案
C
解析
推理题。根据第一段中的“Our online communities become engines of self-image,andself-image becomes the engine of community….but that by mixing our appetite for isolation withour vanity”以及“Human beings have always created elaborate acts of self-presentation.But not allthe time,not every morning”可知,Facebook让人们变得越来越虚荣,时时刻刻想着去展示自己。所以正确答案是C选项。
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