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Facebook means never having to say goodbye.The social media website 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 "Easy E" 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 walltowall,let alone email 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,coworkers from past and present,and
friends of friends.There are 35 in all.If I spent some time uploading old email 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
onscreen 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 email,the inability to schedule facetoface meetings no longer means a friendship must come
to a close.But even with email,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(拐杖). Some things shouldn't be simplified.When it comes to
friendship,there can be no shortcuts.
1. According to Paragraph 1,the website 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
2. From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer ________.
A. would write to the friend quite often
B. asked the friend to email him
C. did get some information about the friend
D. would keep in touch with the friend forever
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 emails.
C. The list of 35 friends doesn't include the old email addresses.
D. It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count.
4. What does the writer mean by saying "However,convenience can be a crutch(拐杖)"?
A. The masterminds of Web 2.0 also sell crutch online.
B. Taking a crutch is a new way of making friends online.
C. Convenience is dangerous for human communication.
D. Convenience is not really good for human communication.
5. What does the author think of the convenience of communicating online?
A. The technology could not keep true friendship forever.
B. The social website of Facebook means nothing at all.
C. There will be no ways of making real friends online.
D. People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook.
