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英语四级仔细阅读第二篇原文

　　The whole kerfuffle is a misunderstanding, according to Elliot Schrage, Facebooks vice president of communications and public policy. In his version of events, the company is simply making changes to improve the service it provides to users by giving them more granular control over what they share, and if people dont share information they have a less satisfying experience. Facebook is innovating so rapidly, he says, that people dont fully understand what the company is doing, and that change is scary.

　　Some critics think this is more about Facebook looking to make more money. Its original business model, which involved selling ads and putting them at the side of the page, totally flopped. Who wants to look at advertisements when theyre online connecting with their friends? Facebook denies that financial motives drove the changes. Of all the criticisms, thats the one I find most distressingthat anything weve done is damaging to users in order for us to make more money, says Schrage.

　　And not everyone thinks its such a bad thing to have less privacy online. Some users, like Robert Scoble, ap-plauded Facebooks new policies. I wish Facebook were MORE open!!! he wrote on his blog. I havent cared about privacy for years.

　　But others are saying that this isnt what they signed up for when they joined. The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington. In April, Sen. Charles Schumer and two other senators called on Facebook to change its privacy policy. They also urged the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites. In May, a group of 15 online-privacy groups filed a formal complaint with the FTC accusing Facebook of unfair and deceptive trade practices. I think the senators rightly communicated that we had not been clear about what the new products were and how people could choose to use them or not to use them, Schrage concedes.