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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 Facebook?
选项 A、It does better than Google in protecting users’ privacy.
B、It will win more market share than Google after the changes.
C、It is now facing increasing competition from Google.
D、It couldn’t win its customers’ trust before the changes.
答案C
解析 事实细节题。根据原文“面对来自其他社交网站日益上升的竞争压力，比如谷歌……”，可知脸谱网正面对来自谷歌的日益上升的竞争压力，C)含义与之吻合，故为答案。原文没有提及在保护隐私办面脸谱网和谷歌谁做得更好，故排除A)；原文没有提及在脸谱网做出改变后，它会赢得比谷歌更多的市场份额，故排除B)；原文指出脸谱渴望保持顾客的信赖而不是未赢得用户的信赖，故排除D)。
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