Língua InglesaVocabulário em contextoCOPERSE UFRGS 2012
UFRGS
Questão de Língua Inglesa
01. Facebook is the world’s largest social 02. network, with 800 million users worldwide as 03. of September 2011. 04. More than any other company, it has 05. defined what …….. see as the “social’' era of 06. the Internet, in which connections made 07. among people replace algorithm-driven 08. searches. And its policies, more than any 09. others, seem to be driving the definition of 10. privacy in this new age. 11. Every day, Facebook users comment or 12. press the “like” button more than 2 billion 13. times and upload more than 250 million 14. photos. The McKinsey Global Institute has 15. estimated that the network’s users post 30 16. billion pieces of content …….. month. 17. The company, founded in 2004 by a 18. Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began 19. life catering first to Harvard students and then 20. to all high school and college students. It has 21. since evolved into a broadly popular online 22. destination used by teenagers and adults of 23. all ages. In country after country, Facebook 24. has cemented itself as the leader, often 25. displacing other social networks. 26. It is …….. surprise that Facebook has 27. become one of the titans of the Internet, 28. challenging even Google with its vision of a 29. Web tied together by personal relationships 30. and recommendations, rather than by search 31. algorithms. In a major expansion, Facebook 32. has spread itself across other Web sites by 33. offering members the chance to “Like” 34. something — share it with their network — 35. without leaving the Web page they are on. 36. At the Facebook developer conference in 37. September, the company announced the 38. release of a product called Timeline, which 39. offers a highly visual view of a user’s 40. Facebook profile and organizes content into 41. photos, events and apps, all based on a 42. timeline view that stretches back to the 43. beginning of a user’s time on Facebook. 44. Timeline is designed to work on mobile 45. devices, too. Adaptado de: WYLD, Adrian. Facebook. Disponível em: http://topics.nytimes.com>. Acesso em: 01 dez. 2011.
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