Facebook means never having to say goodbye. The social media web site has earned a reputation for reconnecting old friends. Last week, a guy whom I hadn't seen since my bachelor party five years ago sent me a friend request. I accepted and waited for him to send me a greeting of some kind. He had sought me out, after all.
I learned from his profile that he was in a relationship and had a son. However, I'm pretty sure we won’t ever write wall-to-wall, let alone e-mail each other. But he'll remain a friend of online until one of us makes a point of removing the other from his official list.
My pool of friends consists of family members, college buddies, co-workers from past and present, and friends of friends. There are 35 in all. If I spent some time uploading old e-mail addresses, I'm confident that I could increase my friend count actually.
A person could make a mission out of reconnecting with childhood friends, former classmates, distant cousins, and those one would like to get to know better. And some people can even handle hundreds of on-screen relationships, keeping up with the daily happenings of their small army of companions. After all, there are worse fates than having too many friends.
Thanks to e-mail, the inability to schedule face-to-face meetings no longer means a friendship must come to a close. But even with e-mail, people will lose touch if one or both parties stop writing back. That's normal. People move from school to school, job to job, city to city. You never have to feel guilty for breaking away.
Every day, the masterminds of Web 2. 0 find new ways of making human communication easier. However, convenience can be a crutch. Some things shouldn't be simplified. When it comes to friendship, there can be no shortcuts.
小題1:According to Paragraph l, the web site is famous because _______.
A．it has an interesting name of “Facebook”
B．it helps people get in touch with old friends
C．it can send people a greeting of some kind
D．it reminds people of events in the past
小題2:From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer _______.
A．would write to the friend quite often
B．a(chǎn)sked the friend to e-mail him
C．did get some information about the friend
D．would keep in touch with the friend forever
小題3: Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．There are 35 people in the author's list of friends right now.
B．The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e-mails.
C．The list of 35 friends doesn't include the old e-mail addresses.
D．It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count.
小題4:What does the author think of the convenience of communicating on line?
A．The technology could not keep true friendship forever.
B．The social web site of Facebook means nothing at all.
C．There will be no ways of making real friends on line.
D．People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook.
小題1:B小題1:C小題1:B小題1:A
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