外刊阅读精选：人们的盲从习惯_大学英语阅读

外刊阅读精选：人们的盲从习惯

　　本篇阅读材料人们的盲从习惯选自《时代》。如果大家觉得比较简单，就当作泛读材料了解了解，认识几个新单词或新表达方式也不错。如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度，不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练，希望大家都有进步^^

　　Soon well be able to follow more than our friends latest escapades on our favorite social networking site. Facebook has announced new look-at-me-looking-at-you feature that will allow you to see what others are watching, hear what theyre listening to and check out what theyre reading, in real time, making consumer behavior more visible than ever before. And if you think that knowing what your friends are consuming will have no impact on you, think again.

　　We might be hesitant to admit the degree to which others influence us, but we most certainly are all influenced. We need only look at the number of lists and recommendations that are the first thing you encounter on any e-commerce site, which make us think that a team of experts has spent the past month parsing through every book, movie, song and testing every coffee maker, handbag and diaper pail, when in fact the only function of all these recommendations and lists is to get you to buy more. And even though most of us are aware that some of those online product reviews are fakes written by friends or company employees or marketers, we purposely overlook this. We want to trust these messages, even when we may be deeply skeptical.