2014届高考英语考前突破阅读理解能力：《青少年不再青睐Facebook》.docVIP

青少年不再青睐Facebook Facebook is dead and buried to older teenagers, an extensive European study has found, as the key age group moves on to Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. 一项广泛的欧洲研究发现，一些稍大些的青少年不再使用Facebook，转而使用Twitter、图片分享应用Instagram、即时通讯WhatsApp和阅后即焚照片应用Snapchat。 ? Researching the Facebook use of 16-18 year olds in eight EU countries, the Global Social Media Impact Study found that as parents and older users saturate（浸透，饱和） Facebook, its younger users are shifting to alternative platforms. ?Facebook is not just on the slide - it is basically dead and buried, wrote Daniel Miller, lead anthropologist（人类学家） on the research team, who is professor of material culture of University College London. ? Mostly they feel embarrassed to even be associated with it. Where once parents worried about their children joining Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists they stay there to post about their lives. ? Teens do not care that alternative services are less functional and sophisticated, and they also unconcerned about how information about them is being used commercially or as part of surveillance practice by the security services, the research found. ? What appears to be the most seminal moment in a young person’s decision to leave Facebook was surely that dreaded day your mum sends you a friend request, wrote Miller.? It is nothing new that young people care about style and status in relation to their peers, and Facebook is simply not cool anymore. ?In part of the studys research with Italian Facebook users, 40% of users had never changed their privacy settings and 80% said they were not concerned or did not care if their personal data was available and accessed, either by an organisation or an individual. ? Information that people choose to publish on Facebook has generally been through a psychological filtering process, researchers found - unlike conversations, photos and video shared through more private tools such as Skype, or on mobile apps. ?