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What would happen if Facebook were truned off?

如果Facebook被关闭会发生什么？

Facebook is blamed for all sorts of social horrors:from addiction and bullying to the enabling of genocide. New research suggests such accusations are not entirely without merit .It may be time consider what life without Facebook would be like?

Face被认为是制造各种社会恐惧的罪魁祸首:从上瘾，欺凌到使种族灭绝称为了可能，新的研究表明，这些指责并非毫无价值的，也许是时候该考虑一下了，没有Facebook的生活会是什么样子的

Several thousand Facebookers were recruited and sorted into control and treatment groups. Members of the treatment group were asked to deactivate their Facebook profiles for four weeks in late 2018.

数千名的facebook员工被招募并分为对照组和治疗组，在2018年底，治疗组成员要求停用它们的Facebook档案4周

Those booted off enjoyed an additional hour of free time on average. They consumed much less news, and were thus less aware of events but also less polarised in their views about them than those still on the network. Leaving Facebook boosted self-reported happiness and reduced feelings of depression and anxiety. Even so, most are loth to call it quits entirely. That reluctance would seem to indicate that Facebook, despite its problems, generates lots of value for consumers, which would presumably vanish were the network to disappear.

哪些被迫停止使用脸书的人，平均多享受一个小时的空闲时间。他们获取到的新闻要少得多，因此他们对事件的了解也比那些仍然在网络上的人少，但他们对事件的看法也不那么两极分化。离开facebook可以提高自我报告的幸福感，减少抑郁和焦虑感。即便如此，大多数人还是不愿称之为完全放弃。这种不情愿似乎表明，尽管Facebook存在问题，但它为消费者创造了大量价值，如果网络消失，这些价值可能会消失。

How could that be? A social network thrives thanks to increasing returns to scale. The more people on a network, the more potential connections it facilitates and the larger its value to each user. Such effects helped power Facebook's rise. You could say Facebook is the world's first digital megacity, thronging with people, enabling huge amounts of human contact, both good and bad.

怎么会这样？社交网络的繁荣得益于规模回报的增加。网络上的人越多，它促进的潜在连接就越多，对每个用户的价值也就越大。这些影响推动了Facebook的崛起。你可以说，Facebook是世界上第一个数字大城市，人山人海，实现了大量的人与人之间的接触，无论好坏。

 

单词：

blamd for	负责任	all sorts of	各种各样/形形色色
social	社会的	horrors	恐慌，恐惧
addiction	上瘾	bullying	恐吓
enabling of genocide	有可能的种族灭绝	may be	多半
consider	考虑	recruited	吸收
sorted	整理	asked	问，询问
deactivate	使停止工作	profiles	面部侧影
weeks	周	late	接近末期

 

free time	自由时间	on average	平均起来
much less	更不用说	aware of	明白
but also	而且	loth	不乐意
call it quits	决定结束	lost	许多
thrives	兴旺发达	thanks to	幸亏
facilitates	促进	thronging	特大城市
enabling	使能够