Research by a British anthropologist shows that the optimum number of friendships that the human brain can maintain is about a hundred and fifty. But it's in the real world. What happens on Facebook where the maximum number of friends permitted is five thousand?
According to social networking statistics, the average Facebook user has a hundred and thirty friends. Some people have a lot more;
Ivy Bean from Bradford in the north of England became Facebook's oldest known user at the age of a hundred and two in 2008. She quickly started making friends and became an online celebrity. When she maxed out her five thousand friend count on Facebook, Ms Bean joined the Twitter website and continued her social networking. At the time of her death in July 2010, she had four thousand, nine hundred and sixty-two friends on Facebook and more than fifty thousand followers (including the Prime Minister's wife) on Twitter. Ms Bean's last tweet was July 6 2010. It read, "Going to have my lunch now will be back later."
| Understanding the text. |
1- Vocabulary : /4 Find in the text the words which mean:
"le cerveau":____________________
"utilisateur":____________________
"la moyenne":____________________
"selon / d'après":________________
"dépasser":____________________
"l'épouse / la femme":_________________
"montrer":________________
"dernier":_____________________
2-True or False or not said. Justify. /12People can't have more than 150 friends on Facebook.
Statistics say that people usually have around three hundred friends.
Ivy Bean died at the age of 102.
Ivy Bean had more than 56 000 pictures of herself on Facebook.
Ivy Bean is a celebrity in real life.
Ms Bean told people on Twitter she wasn't well before dying.
3- Answer the following questions. Make complete sentences. /12How many friendships can a man remember?
Why was Ivy Bean famous?
Where did she live?
What did she do when her friend count on Facebook was full?
How many friends did she have on Facebook when she died?
Somebody famous in GB followed her tweets. Who is it?
4-What do these numbers refer to? /2
2010
130
