Choose the Appropriate Letter to Indicate the Conclusion That Can

question 5

Multiple Choice

Choose the appropriate letter to indicate the conclusion that can be drawn from each passage. In July of 2010, Courtney Purvin was stunned by a suggestion on her Facebook page.The site was suggesting that she get back in touch with an old family friend.What shocked Ms.Purvin was the total impossibility of following up on this idea.The friend mentioned had died almost three months before. When Facebook first made its debut, such depressing surprises rarely occurred.Users were in their teens and twenties.Death was an infrequent visitor.But when the site was opened up to people of all ages, it became all too possible that someone who signed up could pass away.Meanwhile Facebook's software would keep churning out suggestions that former friends might like to get in touch with the deceased.As Meredith Chin, a Facebook spokeswoman put it, the site is huge "and with people passing away every day, we're never going to be perfect at catching it [the suggestion about connecting with someone deceased]." This is a problem that is not likely to go away anytime soon since people over the age of 65 are signing up for Facebook at a faster rate than any other age group.
(Source: Jenna Wortham."As More Facebook Users Die, Ghosts Reach Out to Reconnect, The New York Times , July 18, 2010, p.1)
From this passage, a reader might logically draw which conclusion?

• A) People who get invitations to hook up with people who have died should probably quit Facebook.
• B) People getting invitations to contact friends who have died feel their grief more intensely than those mourners who are not on Facebook.
• C) The number of Facebook users getting suggestions about connecting with friends who have died is likely to increase.
• D) Facebook administrators are aware that users of the site are tired of having their social life managed by a third party.

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Definitions:

Categorical Imperative

A concept developed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant as an ethical guideline for behavior. In deciding whether an action is right or wrong, or desirable or undesirable, a person should evaluate the action in terms of what would happen if everybody else in the same situation, or category, acted the same way.

Unethical Decision

A choice or judgment that goes against moral principles or professional standards, often resulting in harm or unfairness.

Society

Society is a group of individuals living together in a more or less ordered community, often sharing common traditions, institutions, and values.

Legal

Pertaining to the law or the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members.