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According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main co
According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main co
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2011-02-25
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According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main competitor MySpace in April 2008. According to Alexa, the website’s ranking among all websites increased from 60th to 7th in terms of worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September 2007, and is currently 5th. Quantcast ranks the website 15th in U.S. in terms of traffic, and Compete. com ranks it 14th in U.S.
The Internet phenomenon, which boasts 80 million users worldwide, exploded in popularity over the past year as a convenient way for Web users to communicate and share personal details with selected groups of friends or acquaintances. But grammatical errors in the automated messages Facebook uses to personalize pronouns when members share information with their friends have proliferated since the site expanded from English-only into 15 new languages in recent months.
And now, Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual users as "they" or "themself." "We’ve gotten feedback from translators and users in other countries that translations wind up being too confusing when people have not specified a sex on their profiles," Facebook product manager Naomi Gleit said in a company statement.
In English, when users fail to specify what gender they are, Facebook defaults to some form of the gender neutral, plural pronoun "they." That option is unavailable when the plural is always masculine or feminine in other languages. "People who haven’t selected what sex they are frequently get defaulted to the wrong sex," Gleit wrote.
Unless the gender of the user is clear, Facebook does not know which pronoun to use to notify other members add information to the site. This common English problem is multiplied in languages where masculine and feminine distinctions are grammatically ingrained.
The site will now ask users to specify whether they are male or female on their basic member- ship profile. It will prompt existing users to define themselves. Facebook has an opt-out option for members who choose not to specify their gender or do not consider gender to be clear cut. Members can remove mention of gender from messages about their activities. "We’ve received pushback in the past from groups that find the male/female distinction too limiting," Gleit said.
Which one of the following is true about Facebook?
选项
A、The websites are losing their popularity in a gradual way.
B、Registered user’s profiles are open to anyone on the internet.
C、Only friends and acquaintances of the users have access to their profiles.
D、The website is in English only since English is a universal language now.
答案
C
解析
细节题;比较4个选项我们看到4个选项分别在论述这个网站的不同方面,所以我们需要结合每个选项,和原文的相关信息进行比对,来寻找正确答案。A选项的说法和原文的“exploded in popularity”冲突,需要排除。B选项和原文的“share personal details with selected groups of friends or acquaintances”相矛盾,也需要排除。而C选项则是对这一点的正确表述,是正确答案。D选项则和原文中“the site expanded from English-only into 15 new languages in recent months”的表述不一致,也需要排除。
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