时差N小时 Facebook会让你感到孤独吗?(上)

Does Facebook Lead To Loneliness?

Facebook会让人孤独吗？

Dear:A Moment of Science,

亲爱的《科学一刻》：

I'm not a big Facebook user, but I have friends who are.

我不是Facebook的忠实用户，不过我的几位朋友是。

And I've noticed that some of them are constantly updating their status.

我注意到，他们中有人会频繁地更新Facebook的个人状态。

Where some people might post a message once a day, others seem to be posting something every few minutes.

一些人可能一天会发布一条消息，而一些人似乎每隔几分钟就发布一条消息。

Can science help explain this phenomenon?

科学能对这种现象做一下解释么？

Interesting question.

很有趣的问题。

Of course, there are many reasons why people join and post stuff on Facebook.

尽管大家注册并在Facebook发帖的原因各异，

But researchers have begun to study the phenomenon you describe.

但科学家已经对你描述的现象进行了研究，

And they found that copious¹ posting on Facebook may have something to do with loneliness.

而他们发现频繁地在Facebook上发帖可能与孤独有关。

Specifically, the researchers found that people who update their status more often report feeling less lonely than people who post less often.

尤其要说明的是，科学家发现经常更新状态的人比不常更新状态的人更不易产生孤独感。

1 copious   

adj.丰富的，大量的

参考例句：

• She supports her theory with copious evidences.她以大量的例证来充实自己的理论。
• Every star is a copious source of neutrinos.每颗恒星都是丰富的中微子源。