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Sharing online, as social media enthusiasts are learning, can have all sorts of unintended consequences offline. Now Faceboo

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问题     Sharing online, as social media enthusiasts are learning, can have all sorts of unintended consequences offline.
    Now Facebook is helping you get a better grip on what you share. On Tuesday the company revealed changes to its privacy settings that are designed to more clearly show who knows what about your life on the Internet. The changes will take effect Thursday.
    What is now called "everyone" in those settings will instead be called "public. " Facebook executives say they want to eliminate any doubts about what the setting means. If you click " public," that means anyone who is online can see it, including perfect strangers—or, worse, parents, prospective employers and your ex-wife’s divorce lawyers.
    Similar settings will now appear next to other material you have posted, like your work history or photo albums, so you will no longer need to click to pages full of privacy options to change them.
    No doubt the company also wants to diminish the possibility of legislation, investigation from complicated or confusing privacy settings. And with mounting competition from other social networking sites, namely Google, which emphasizes more compartmentalized (区分的) communications to different sets of friends and acquaintances, Facebook is also keen to keep its customers’ trust.
    "Your profile should feel like your home on the Web," the company said in a blog post. "You should never feel like stuff appears there that you don’t want, and you shouldn’t ever wonder who can see anything that shows up there. "
    That includes labeled pictures. The site will now let you approve every picture in which you are labeled before it appears on your profile page. No longer will a plain or compromising photograph of you show up there without your consent, though the publisher of the photograph can still post it on his or her own page.
    The changes point to some of the company’s growing pains, in which mass appeal can sometimes be a bit of a liability. Facebook is used today by 750 million people all over the world, with varying degrees of knowledge about what it means to have a life online. Company officials say they hope the latest changes will remove the mystery of privacy settings and ensure that Facebook users are never " surprised" by what others can see about them.
What can we learn about the company officials in Facebook?
选项 A、They come from all over the world and have received high education.
B、They hope privacy settings will become more open to the public.
C、They are never surprised about what others think about them.
D、They suffer a lot for their company’s latest changes.
答案B
解析 事实细节题。根据原文“公司的官员称，他们希望最新的变化将会消除个人隐私设置的神秘感”，可知脸谱网的官员希望最新的变化能使得个人隐私设置更公开化，B)含义与之吻合，故为答案。原文指出脸谱网在全球范围内拥有75亿的用户，并未提及其官员接受过高等教育，故排除A)；原文指出脸谱网官员希望其用户不会因为别人看到他们的信息而感到“惊讶”，故排除C)；原文指出这些改变表明了公司发展时期的一些困难，并不能说明最新的改变使其官员饱受折磨，故排除D)。
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