(EsPCEx - 2011)
Mark Zuckerberg’s 650 Million Friends (and counting)
Back in June 2009, the globe’s potpourri of social-networking sites was extremely diverse: Google’s Orkut dominated India and Brazil; Central and South America preferred Hi5; Maktoob was king in the Arab world. The Vietnamese liked Zing, the Czechs loved Lidé, South Koreans surfed Cyworld. Two years after that, and Facebook has stolen users away from its rivals very fast. It’s completely knocked Hi5 off the map in former strongholds such as Peru, Mexico, and Thailand. After a tense back-and-forth with Orkut in India, Facebook has emerged victorious. And it’s becoming more popular in Armenia, Georgia, and the Netherlands, where local providers are making a desperate last stand.
There are some glaring exceptions to Facebook’s colonization kick. Russians continue to use Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, with Facebook a distant fourth in the rankings. China remains highly committed to domestic sites such as Qzone and Renren. But for the rest of us, we’re living in Zuckerberg’s world.
According to the text, Facebook’s boom on the Internet was in
2007.
2008.
2009.
2010.
2011.
Gabarito:
2011.
A) INCORRECT: não há nenhuma referência ao ano de 2007 no texto.
B) INCORRECT: não há nenhuma referência ao ano de 2008 no texto.
C) INCORRECT: o ano de 2009 é citado no texto, mas não se refere ao "boom" do Facebook, mas sim que era um ano de diversificação das redes sociais.
D) INCORRECT: não há nenhuma referência ao ano de 2010 no texto.
E) CORRECT: pois o texto fala que "Two years after that [depois de 2009, ou seja, 2011], and Facebook has stolen users away from its rivals very fast". Isso significa que o boom do facebook se deu em 2011, quando ele "roubou" os usuários das redes rivais.