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2012年6月英语四级深度阅读第二篇源自《The Daily Beast》(《每日野兽》，美国新闻网站，由《纽约客》前总编蒂娜·布朗创办)，文章标题——The High Price of Facebook(《Facebook高价的秘密》)，试卷节选了文中的一部分内容。(加粗部分为节选内容)
If you don't spend your days glued to tech blogs, you might not know about the latest trend among hipster techies: quitting Facebook. These folks, including a bunch of Google engineers, are bailing out because Facebook just changed its rules so that much of your personal profile information, including where you work, what music you like, and where you went to school, now gets made public by default. Some info is even shared with companies that are special partners of Facebook, like Yelp, Pandora, and Microsoft. And while there are ways to dial back on some of this by tinkering with your privacy settings, it's tricky to figure out—intentionally so, according to cynics.
The fear is that people are being lured into Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service, and don't realize that they're paying for it by giving up loads of personal information. Facebook then attempts to “monetize” one's data by selling it to advertisers that want to send targeted messages.
Most folks using Facebook have no idea this is happening. Even if you're very tech-savvy and do know what the company is up to, you still have no idea what you're paying for Facebook, because people don't really know what their personal data is worth.