C-Read the passage given below and give the answer of the following questions:- 1. A youngster quit Facebook in December after spending over three years on a 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. Last week a new feature on Facebook called timeline forced him to reconsider the pros and cons of being on the networking site. “Everyone has some skeletons in their closet and I am just not comfortable with Facebook digging out and displaying all the facts of my life on a bulletin board,” says this youngster who joined the network in July 2007 when he was in class Xl.2. 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 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.3. “I think it’s a recipe for disaster,” he says ” In 2007. I had some well posts, which seemed approprite at that time, but now after a lapse of four years. I have moved on and don’t went them to he openly displayed for all to see. And he is not alone, Many users worried about how Facebook activity could possibly after 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 “Poking and liking are not enough to keep a friendship going2 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. “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.4.”Facebook has become a time sink and it could not justify the time I spent on it,” he says. “I spend more time calling up friends or relatives over the phone now. I also go out and meet people whenever passible and have a good offline life. I do not regret the change” Today, Facebook has 800 million users of which 37 million are Indi The site has become an online identity for most, and many of those who decide to quit cannot overcome the withdrawal symptoms and return. Facebook. fully aware of its addictive powers, facilitates this return by allowing users to ‘deactivate their accounts but continues to store information on its servers so that they can return from their break’, whenever they wish.
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21- What does the youngster talk about in the passage? * 1 point
i) Life with addiction of using Facebook
(ii) His life experience with and without Facebook
(iii) Benefits of using Facebook
(iv)All of the above
22- What made him re-think his decision? * 1 point (i) Facebook activity
(ii) Hype created of everyday issues through Facebook (
iii) Facebook timeline
(iv)None of the above
23- Which of the following statements is not true? * 1 point
i) Facebook has compressed time
(ii) It is not easy to resist Facebook
(iii) It seems to justify our time using Facebook and making new friends
(iv)The site is an online identity for everyone 24- What new term does the speaker coin in the passage? * 1 point (i) A recipe for disaster (ii) Facebook suicide
(iii) Both (i) and (ii)
(iv)None of these
25- The same meaning of the word ‘feature’ is ……….. * 1 point (
i) feat
(ii) variety
(iii) type
(iv)characteristic
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A youngster quit Facebook in December after spending over three years on a 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. Last week a new feature on Facebook called timeline forced him to reconsider the pros and cons of being on the networking site. “Everyone has some skeletons in their closet and I am just not comfortable with Facebook digging out and displaying all the facts of my life on a bulletin board,” says this youngster who joined the network in July 2007 when he was in class Xl.2. 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 that, until recently, were hidden under layers and layers of recent updates.
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