Facebook In A Efl Class

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A research by a British anthropologist shows that the optimum number of friendships that the human brain can maintain is about 150. But that’s in the realworld. What happens on Facebook where the maximum number of ‘friends’ permitted is 5000?
According to social networking statistics, the average Facebook user has 130 friends. Some people have a lotmore.

Ivy Bean from Bradford in the north of England became Facebook’s oldest known user at the age of 102 in 2008. She quickly started making friends and became an online celebrity. When shemaxed out her 5000 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 4,962 friends on Facebook and morethan 56,000 followers on Twitter. Ms. Bean’s last tweet was July 6 2010. It read: “Going to have my lunch now will be back later.’’

I. Answer the following questions.

a. What is the numberof friends that we can have in real world?

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b. Who was Ivy Bean?
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c. In whichsocial networks Ivy was subscribed?
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d. Which was the last tweet of Ms. Ivy?
______________________________________________________.e. How many followers on Twitter and friends on Facebook Ms. Bean had?

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Imagine you want to join to the social network webpage. Fillin your profile

Webpage Name: |
Your name:|
age:|
Gender|
location:|
hometown:|
interested in:|
personality:|
right now I feel:|


Complete the rules of the web page with can/can’t1. You ________write in English.
2. You ________be rude or nasty.
3. You ________be boring.
4. You ________ be under 18.
5. You________

The wall
1 Introduce yourself.
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