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Facebook Morns
A. Kimberly Gervaise, a stay-at-home mother of three in Little Silver, N.J., joined Facebook five years ago and only posts every couple of months, mostly sharing photos from special events, like birthdays. She has 393 friends, and wishes some of them would tuck it in (收敛. a bit. "I get a little annoyed about people who feel the need to post a picture of a straight-A report card—and there are many," she says. "I am sure that most of the time, they are just proud, but I find it annoying."
B . Gervaise says more and more mothers are using Facebook as a platform to boast about their lives, their kids,their parenting techniques. And that's making it harder and harder for morns like her to log on without getting slapped in the face. Bragging about your kids is nothing new, but before Facebook, the Compare & Contrast game was mostly played at the playground or the preschool parking lot. Moms would stand around discreetly scrutinizing kids to see who was hitting milestones faster or slower than their own children. Now it's going on all day, every day, in a vast electronic sandbox.
C. Facebook moms are constantly bombarded with updates about their friends' kids and their accomplishments.Daily, hourly even. According to Edison Research's Morns and Media 2013 report, 57% of morns on Facebook are over 35--these women are the first generation to have raised their children entirely in the Facebook era. They started out single, gossiping and posting party photos and flirting, and now they're changing diapers, worrying about peanut allergies and diligently navigating the sometimes treacherous mommy waters. And if they're active on Facebook, they're learning in front of a huge, rapt audience.
D. Mothers are heavy Facebook users. Edison's 2013 research reveals that 7 out of 10 moms have a profile, and there are more than 1,000 mommy groups, public and private. These groups range in size from hundreds of members to tens of thousands, and they are discussing everything from potty training to gaming that private-school admissions test.
E.  Of all the members on Facebook, moms check in the most  (an average of 5.1 times a day, according to Edison., and they keep coming back, even if  they are being battered with subtle-and sometimes not so subtle—" My kid's smarter/healthier/happier than yours" remarks. For the mom who barely gets her kids'shoes on before hustling them off to school, posts that portray the perfect family can stir up guilt or even self-loathing(自我厌恶.. "Who has time to draw pictures with children? Who has time to clean up the giant mess?" says Meredith De Persia, a working mother of two in San Francisco. "When I see these posts, I definitely feel like a lazy person."
F.  The great time-killer is now a massive ego-killer, and even a mommy-blogger with a huge following feels vulnerable.  "Facebook makes me feel bad," says Glennon Doyle Melton, who had a New York Times best-seller with Carry On, Warrior.  "No matter how satisfied I am with my life, career, family, social life, house,etc., as soon as I log on to Facebook and peek into others' lives, I immediately feel that unease caused by comparison."
G. This is turning many moms off. "One thing that drove me crazy when my son was younger was moms posting about how well their baby slept," a mom from Texas recalls. "Our son was a pretty poor sleeper, and we spent so much of that first year utterly exhausted. So to be honest, when I would see a post gloating, ' X slept for six hours straight last night! ' I would immediately hide that person for a while because it would irritate me." An online media professional and mom of one from Falls Church, Va., is so tired of playing the game. "I kind of avoid Facebook entirely," she says, "because I'm sick of everyone's presentation of perfection."
H. There is nothing in the Facebook rules that requires complete honesty and total disclosure, and it is human nature to portray the best version of one's life. From carefully presenting our vacation pictures to sharing perfectly posed first-day-of-school photos, all of us, not just moms, try to portray a problem-free, fun-filled, blissful life. And that can be pretty annoying if you've just spent the morning watching your 4-year-old repaint your kitchen walls with oatmeal(麦片粥)
I.  "An acquaintance posted a drawing her daughter had made, and it was so perfect. Way more than my son could do, even though he is the same age," says a teacher and mother from Texas.  "I panicked for a minute,but talked myself down. If someone is posting positive, cheerful, perfect things all the time, I always think:Nope. Not buying it. No one' s life is that perfect."
J.  Part of the problem is that this isn't happening in real time, face to face. That means morns who might not mean to offend are missing the social cues that normally put a damper on excessive crowing. "Social networks like Facebook haven't changed the way people respond to bragging; they've changed how much people brag,"says Dr. Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center. "The ability to publicize so much has blurred the line between sharing and boasting. When you brag in a group, you notice when they wander away. When you brag on Facebook, it's harder to tell who you're alienating."
K. Dr. Saedi, author of the blog Millennial Media, thinks it's important to keep it all in perspective. "Remember that, like TV, not everything you see on Facebook is true. No one's life is perfect. And the more that people try to prove how great it is, the more it's often a sign that it's not. It's important for morns on Facebook to take a step back, get some distance and reassess."
L. Many feeling-smothered mothers don't want to "step back"; they want to escape, to be free. "I deleted my Facebook account!" crows a stay-at-home mom of two in Austin, Texas.  "I hated the  ' Keeping up with the Joneses' behavior that Facebook engenders." Not everyone is ready---or able--to completely cut the Facebook umbilical cord(脐带.. One mom decided she just needed to take control of her page, and silence the bragger sand know-every things. "I cleaned house a year ago and only connect with people I'm actually friends or family with," she says. "I found that I'd catch up on Facebook and be bad-tempered after, so I changed my profile to only let Facebook be what I want it to be."
M. Even mommy-blogger Melton took a Facebook vacation. For 40 days, the 101,000 followers of her Momastery website waited patiently as she took a rest. It was during this break that she realized how unhappy Facebook made her at times. "I called my younger sister the other day and said, 'I'm going to quit Facebook.I don't use it right. Whether I want to or not, I just end up comparing myself to everyone else.' "
N. "And my sister said, ' Actually, you're using it for the exact thing it was originally designed for. Remember, some college guys made it so that students could compare women to each other and decide who was hotter.' " Melton ponders this for a moment. "And I thought, Ah. Right. Huh. The origin of Facebook is really annoying and offensive, when you think about it. And even more annoying is that we often still use it for what it was originally intended: comparison."
 Comparison was the original function when people designed Facebook and the function has been in use since then.

参考答案:N进入在线模考
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妈妈们的脸谱生活
A)金伯利·热尔韦斯是三个孩子的妈妈,她住在新泽西州的Little Silver,是全职太太。五年前她加入脸谱网,每隔几个月才上传点东西,主要是分享诸如生日这类特殊活动的照片。[38]她有393位好友。她希望有的好友能够稍微收敛一点。她说:“有的人连得A的成绩单也要晒出来,这样的人还不少,这使我有点烦。我肯定大部分时候,这些人只是感到很骄傲,但我发现这有点让人烦心。”
B)热尔韦斯说,越来越多的妈妈们把脸谱网当作炫耀自己生活、孩子以及育儿技巧的平台。这使得像她一样的妈妈们每次登录进去都有被打了耳光一样的感觉。[42]炫耀自家的孩子也不是什么新鲜事,但有脸谱网以前,比拼的把戏大多是在孩子玩耍的地方或学前班的停车场上进行。妈妈们会在孩子周围密切注意着他们,看谁比自己的孩子进入各个重要阶段更早或更晚。而现在,这样的比较整天,每一天都在庞大的电子沙坑中进行着。
c)脸谱网的妈妈们不断收到成堆的最新消息,都是关于朋友们的孩子和这些孩子的各种成就的。每天都有,甚至每小时都有。[44]据艾迪森研究所2013年母亲和媒体报告称,脸谱网上57%的妈妈年龄超过35岁,这些母亲是第一批完全在脸谱时代养育儿女的人。她们起初还是单身,说点闲话,晒些派对照片或者与人调调情,但现在,她们换尿布,担心花生过敏,不辞辛苦地航行在有时会充满狂风暴雨的“母亲之海”中。假如她们在脸谱上很活跃,那么她们正在一大群专心致志的观众面前学习。
D)[41]妈妈们对脸谱网的使用很多。艾迪森2013年的研究表明每10位妈妈中就有7位建立了自己的档而且脸谱网上有一千多个妈妈群,有些是公开的,有些是私人的。这些群里少则有成百上千人,多则有成千上万人。她们讨论的话题从训练孩子使用便盆到如何应对私立学校入学考试,无所不包。
E)在脸谱网用户中,妈妈们查看得最勤(按照艾迪森的统计,平均每天5.1次),她们不断回到脸谱网上,即使她们总是被一些暗含的——有时还挺直白的——“我的孩子比你的聪明/健康/快乐”的评论打击。那些在拉孩子去学校之前,勉勉强强能让他们穿上鞋的妈妈认为,[43]对于完美的家庭的描绘会让人感到内疚甚至自我厌恶。“谁有时间和孩子一起画画?谁有时间去清理凌乱不堪的家?”在旧金山市工作的两个孩子的母亲梅瑞狄斯·德佩尔西亚说,“[43]我看到这些文章时,真觉得自己是个懒人。”
F)消磨时光的好帮手现在变成了强大的自尊刽子手,甚至连拥有众多粉丝的妈妈博主也感到脆弱不堪。荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的《继续前进,勇士》的作者格伦农·多伊尔·梅尔顿说:“脸谱网让我感到难过,无论我对自己的生活、事业、家庭、社交、住房等有多满意,我一登录脸谱网,窥视到别人的生活,并与之比较之后,我就立刻感到浑身不自在。”
G)这使得很多妈妈们关闭了脸谱。“我儿子小的时候,让我感到特别受不了的是别的妈妈们晒自己的孩子睡得有多好。”一位来自得克萨斯州的妈妈回忆道。“我儿子睡眠很不好,我们在他出生的第一年使出浑身解数,彻底累坏了。所以,说实话,我一看到有人发帖说某某小孩昨晚睡了六个小时没有醒过,我就会立刻隐藏说这话的人一段时间,因为这惹恼了我。”[39]来自弗吉尼亚州福尔斯彻奇市的一位资深网络媒体人,同时也是一个孩子的母亲已经非常厌倦这种游戏。“我有点想彻底不再上脸谱网了。”她说,“因为我对每个人展示的完美感到厌倦。”
H)[37]脸谱网上没有任何规定要求完全诚实和公开所有信息。而人性就是这样,要描绘自己生活中最好的一面。从精心展示我们的假日照片到分享姿势完美的第一天上学照,我们所有人,不仅仅是妈妈们,都极力刻画一个无忧无虑、充满乐趣和幸福的人生。如果正巧那天早上你看见四岁的孩子正在用燕麦粥重新粉刷厨房的墙壁,那真是够令人讨厌的。
I)“一个我认识的人晒了一张她女儿画的画,那幅画堪称完美。虽然她和我儿子一样大,但是她画得比我儿子强得多。”一位来自得克萨斯的教师兼母亲说。“我心痛了片刻,但说服自己冷静下来。如果某个人一直晒积极的、欢乐的、美好的东西,我总是想:不可能。我不信。没有人的生活会那么完美。”
J)[40]一部分问题是,这不是实时发生的,并不是面对面的交流。这意味那些无意冒犯别人的妈妈们可能没有注意到我们的社交提示往往是抑制过分的自鸣得意。“像脸谱网这样的社交网站并没有改变人们对炫耀的反应方式。这些网站只是改变了人们炫耀的程度。”媒体心理学研究中心主任帕梅拉·拉特利奇博士说,“能够进行如此大量的自我宣传模糊了分享和炫耀的界限。你在人群里自我吹嘘的时候,你会注意到人们的离去。可你在脸谱网上吹嘘时,很难分辨你疏远了谁。”
K)千年媒体博客的作者萨迪博士认为保持清醒是很重要的。“记住,就像看电视一样,并非你在脸谱网上看到的一切都是真的。没有人的生活是完美的。[45]人们越是试图证明生活多么好,他们的生活越有可能并不那么好。对于脸谱网上的妈妈们来说,后退一步,保持一定的距离并重新评估自己很重要。”
L)许多感觉窒息的母亲不想“后退一步”;她们想逃避,想要自由。“我删除了我的脸谱网账户!”得克萨斯州奥斯汀市一位有两个孩子的家庭主妇得意地说,“我讨厌脸谱网产生的攀比行为。”但不是每个人都准备好了——或能够——完全切断与脸谱网的联系。一个妈妈决定要控制自己的页面,让吹牛的人和自以为无所不知的人闭上嘴。“我一年前清理了好友,只与家人或朋友联系。”她说,“我发现我想上脸谱网了解大家的近况,但了解之后会变得暴躁不安,所以我改变了自己的基本资料,只让脸谱网成为我想要的那样。”
M)就连妈咪博主梅尔顿也在脸谱网上休假了。整整40天里,她Momastery网站的10.1万个粉丝在她休息时。耐心等待着。正是在这期间,她意识到了脸谱网有时让她那么不快乐。“我有一天给妹妹打电话说:‘我要戒了脸谱网。我没有合理使用它。无论我是不是想,在脸谱网上,最终我还是要把自己和别人比较。’”
N)“然后我妹妹说:‘实际上,[36]你使用脸谱网的正是它最初被设计的功能。记住,是一些大学生创造了脸谱.这样他们就能比较女人,并选出最惹火的那个。’”梅尔顿思考了片刻。“然后我想,啊。是的。呵呵。想起来,脸谱网的初衷就是令人恼火并带有攻击性的。[36]让人更恼火的是,我们还经常使用它以、达到它最初的目的:比较。”
【答案解析】
解析:题干意为,当初人们设计脸谱网时的功能就是为了比较,而且从那时起这个功能一直在被使用。注意抓住题干中关键词original function。关于脸谱网最初的作用的内容出现在N段。该段指出,一些大学生创造了脸谱网,这样他们可以比较女人,由此可知它最初的作用就是比较。最后一句指出,让人更恼火的是。我们还经常使用它以达到它最初的目的:比较。由此可见,题干对原文进行了同义转述,故答案是N。