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You’ve probably experienced it yourself. Maybe it’s the way you feel while scrolling through your Twitter feed—anxious, twitchy,

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问题     You’ve probably experienced it yourself. Maybe it’s the way you feel while scrolling through your Twitter feed—anxious, twitchy, a little world weary—or maybe it was this month’s Facebook privacy scandal, which reminded you that you’ve entrusted the most intimate parts of your digital life to a profit maximizing surveillance machine.
    Our growing discomfort with our largest social platforms is reflected in polls. One recently conducted by Axios and Survey Monkey found that all three of the major social media companies—Facebook, Twitter and Google—are significantly less popular with Americans than they were five months ago. But it would be a mistake to throw up our hands and assume that it has to be this way. The original dream of social media—producing healthy discussions, unlocking new forms of creativity, connecting people to others with similar interests— shouldn’t be discarded because of the failures of the current market leaders.
    The primary problem with today’s social networks is that they’re already too big, and are trapped inside a market-based system that forces them to keep growing. In their book Neva Power, which comes out next week, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms write about the struggle between centralized, top down institutions, which represent "old power," and decentralized, bottom-up movements, which represent "new power. "
    Facebook, they write, is an example of a new power institution that serves old power interests. It harvests the creative output of billions of people and turns it into a giant, centralized enterprise, with most users sharing none of the economic value they create and getting no say in the platform’s governance. Instead, the authors ask, what if a social network was truly run by its users? "If you’re contributing economic value to something of this much social consequence, you should share in the value you’re creating," Heimans told me.
    Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado, had a similar idea in 2016, when he proposed that Twitter users band together to buy the platform from its shareholders and convert it into a user-run collective. People who made valuable contributions to the network, such as employees and power users, would receive bigger stakes and more voting power. And users would have a seat at the table for major decisions about the platform’s operations.
    In a blog post last year, venture capitalist Hunter Walk proposed an interesting idea: a legally mandated "start over" button that, when pressed, would allow users of social networks to delete all their data, clear out their feeds and friend lists, and begin with a fresh account. Such approaches would undoubtedly be bad for most social networks’ business models. But it could create new and healthy norms around privacy and data hygiene.
From Paragraph 2, we can infer that________.
选项 A、the dissatisfaction with social media may be fueled
B、the initial prospect of social media should be cherished
C、creativity is the key point of social media
D、the dim light of leading brands may disappoint the public
答案B
解析 本题是推断题。根据文章第二段第四句提到的，The original dream of social media—producing healthy discussions, unlocking new forms of creativity, connecting people to others with similar interests— shouldn’t be discarded because of the failures of the current market leaders (社交媒体的初衷——提供健康的讨论、解锁新的创新形式并把志同道合的人联系起来——不该因为当前市场上主流品牌的失败而被抛弃)，可知，B项是对该段内容的同义改写，故答案选B。A项的相关表述出现在第二段首句，是对该句的同义改写，但并非本段所要表述的重点，故排除；C项中对于creativity的描述出现在第四句，producing healthy discussions, unlocking new forms of creativity, connecting people to others with similar interests，该部分是对社交媒体最初愿景的具体描述，并未提及创造力是社交媒体的核心等类似表述，属于无中生有，故排除；D项对于主流品牌的描述位于本段结尾处，重在表述不能因为主流品牌的失败而抛弃最初的愿景，并不是选项中提到的让公众失望，故排除。
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