Great grandmother Lillian Lowe today claimed she is the world's oldest Facebook user at 103 -- and she updates  her status  from her iPad.        Just two months away from her 104thbirthday, the family of young-at-heart Lillian believe she is the oldest of the social networking website's 500 million users around the world.        Lillian Lowe is thought to have taken the crown  of oldest Facebook user from 104-year-old Ivy Bean who died in her sleep in July.        Lillian said today that she is a big fan of the social networking site. "I love it. It is very exciting. It's a wonderful way of exploring something new. But I must say it's really a waste of time. I'm sure there are lots of other things I should be doing rather than playing on a computer."        She has 34 Facebook "friends" -- and her most active one is her great grand-daughter Kaylee Lowe, 10.        She said, "I can recommend it to any grandparents who keep in touch with their family by telephone all the time."        Lillian was born in 1907 and she can still remember the news of the Titanicsinking in 1912.        Lillian said, "I think almost everything has been invented during my time. What I particularly like now is this Google Earth.        "When I was 84, I visited Australia with my younger sister Mary, who will be 100 next year.        "We had a lovely trip, so yesterday I looked at Australia again on the Internet.        "I've always read a lot during my life, and this computer has just taken the place of a book."        Her grandson Steve set Lillian up with her Facebook account  -- and gave her his iPad to use.        Steve said, "Now and again, she might be surprised at a few of the funny teenage behaviors she sees on Facebook.        "But she's pretty tolerant  and it doesn't annoy her. What's great about Grandma is that she's not afraid to take on new things and is always willing to learn -- she's a great inspiration to us all." Steve's words show that Lillian   _  . A) can't stand some behaviors on the Internet B) is not afraid to admit her mistakes C) is pleased to learn new things D) gets angry easily
C


Last Christmas was a very difficult time for me. My family and all of my close friends were back home in Florida, and I was all alone in a rather cold California. I was working too many hours and became very sick. I was working a double shift at the Southwest Airlines ticket counter, it was about 9:00 PM on Christmas Eve, and I was feeling really miserable inside. There were a few of us working and very few customers waiting to be helped. When it was time for me to call the next person to the counter, I looked out to see the sweetest-looking old man standing with a cane. He walked very slowly over to the counter and in the faintest voice told me that he had to go to New Orleans. I tried to explain to him that there were no more flights that night and that he would have to go in the morning. He looked so confused and very worried. I tried to find out more information by asking if he had a reservation or if he remembered when he was supposed to travel, but he seemed to become more confused with each question. He just kept saying, "She said I have to go to New Orleans." After much time, I was able to at least find out that this old man had been dropped off at the curb on Christmas Eve by his sister-in-law and told to go to New Orleans, where he had family. She had given him some cash and told him just to go inside and buy a ticket. When I asked if he could come back tomorrow, he said that she was gone and that he had no place to stay. He then said he would wait at the airport until tomorrow. Naturally, I felt a little ashamed. Here I was feeling very sorry for myself about being alone on Christmas, when this angel named Clarence MacDonald was sent to me to remind me of what being alone really meant. It broke my heart. Immediately, I told him we would get it all straightened out, and our Customer Service agent helped to book him a seat for the earliest flight the next morning. We gave him the senior citizen's fare, which gave him some extra money for travelling. About this time he started to look very tired, and... The old man wanted to fly to New Orleans to   _  . A) see his friends there B) spend the Christmas with his family C) visit his sister-in-law D) undergo heart surgery
B


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Google is preparing for changes in its privacy policy beginning March 1st. The company says it plans to replace more than 60 separate policies for different products with one main policy. Privacy activists criticized last month's announcement. They are concerned that the new policy will make it easier to track the activities of users across Google's many products -- from Gmail to YouTube. Marc Rotenberg heads the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. He says Google's aim is to create a single unified profile  of its users. "We believe that not only is that a threat to privacy, we actually believe it is illegal, because last year Google entered into an agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission in which they said they would not engage in that kind of data sharing without the permission of their users." Google says its new policy will make it simpler for users to share information across services like Google Search, Gmail and Google Calendar. And it says the new policy will help personalize each user's experience. Over time, it says, users can expect to see better search results, fewer unwanted advertisements and more content targeted to their interests. But Marc Rotenberg says in return, people who choose to use Google will lose control over the information they share. "The type of information you might provide for an e-mail service, for example, such as your address book, which contains private information, is different from the type of information that you might provide for a social network service where people purposely make information publicly available to their friends." Mr. Rotenberg says these two kinds of services should be kept separate. "By trying to combine these two services, in our view, Google is actually undermining a very well established expectation of privacy, especially for popular Internet services like electronic mail." Critics also see a bigger problem with Google's new policy. The plan would not give users a choice to drop out of the data sharing.  "In our view, if... What's Google's purpose to change its privacy policy according to Marc Rotenberg? A) To serve its users better. B) To make it easier for their work C) To personalize each user's experience D) To build up a unified profile of its users
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D