Question

1. A youngster quit Facebook in December after spending over three years on the social

networking site. With that one act, he bid a silent adieu to more than 300 contacts that he

had added to his account during the period. Like almost everyone from his “friends’ circle,”

the 20–year–old was a regular on the service; visiting it everyday to post photos and status

updates. But last week, a new feature on Facebook called Timeline forced him to reconsider

the pros and cons of being on the networking site.

2. ‘Everyone has some skeletons in their closet and I am just not comfortable with Facebook

digging up and displaying all the facets of my life on a bulletin board,’ says this youngster

who joined the network in July 2007 while he was in Class 11.

3. Facebook, you see, had compressed the time he spent on the site and arranged it in

chronological order. And while he initially liked the new, neatly organised scrapbook–like

feature, he wasn’t happy to reveal posts from the past, those that, until recently, were

hidden under layers and layers of recent updates. Just clicking on a date on the timeline

could transport his friends back in time and enable them to view every embarrassing

comment, link or photo he had posted on his profile.

4. “I think it’s a recipe for disaster,” he says. “In 2007, I had some wall posts, which seemed

appropriate at the time, but now after a lapse of four years, I have moved on and don’t want

them to be openly displayed for all to see.”

5. And he is not alone. Many users, worried about how Facebook activity could possibly affect

their offline lives, are choosing to commit ‘Facebook suicide’. While some have privacy concerns,

others feel that the site that was meant to bring them closer to their friends actually does the

opposite – it reduces their friendship to something superficial.

6. “Poking and liking are not enough to keep a friendship going,” says a business analyst. Having

quit Facebook three years ago, she prefers meeting her ‘real’ friends face–to–face, instead of

reading their trite posts online.

7. “On Facebook, people hype everyday issues including what they ate and where they went on a daily basis,” says this analyst who continues to use Twitter.
8. Similarly, an engineering student, quit Facebook last December four years after joining it. One

fine day, he exported all the data from his account into a little zip file and hit the delete button.

9. “I realised that when it came to my friends who really mattered, I could actually keep in touch

with them over the phone or by meeting them in real life,” he wrote on his blog.


Q.According to the passage, the social media:

a) can cause more harm than good.

b) Is just a waste of time.  

c) connects one to real life.  

d) provides opportunity to meet people face to face.​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a)false

(b)true

(c)true

(d)true