托福阅读当下热门的推特与facebook.pdf

智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料 托福阅读当下热门的推特和facebook 如今的热门话题都有可能变成托福阅读的重要内容，随着托福阅读 题材涉及面越来越广，如果各位不能多积累一些新托福阅读的知识那应 付考试就很难了，下面的材料是关于推特和facebook的话题，希望对 大家有帮助。 新托福阅读准备之托福阅读题材：推特和facebook 托福阅读原文： Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes. Repeated exposure to social networking sites leaves users with an identity crisis, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying: Look at me, Mummy, Ive done this. Baroness Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, believes the growth of internet friendships – as well as greater use of computer games – could effectively rewire the brain. This can result in reduced concentration, a need for instant gratification and poor non-verbal skills, such as the ability to make eye contact during conversations. More than 750million people across the world use Facebook to share photographs and videos and post regular updates of their movements and thoughts. Millions have also signed up to Twitter, the micro-blogging service that lets members circulate short text and picture messages about themselves. Baroness Greenfield, former director of research body the Royal Institution, said: What concerns me is the banality of so much that goes out on Twitter. Why should someone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast? It reminds me of a small child (saying): “Look at me Mummy, Im doing this”, “Look at me Mummy Im doing that”. Its almost as if theyre in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense its keeping the brain in a sort of time warp. The academic suggested that some Facebook users feel the need to become mini celebrities who are watched and admired by others on a daily basis. They do things that are Facebook worthy because the only