時事新聞:社交網站好友申請爆棚 蓋茨無奈退出
【英文原文】
Bill Gates 'too popular' for Facebook
摘要：由於好友申請爆棚，美國微軟公司的合作創始人比爾•蓋茨已經不再登錄Facebook。
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has stopped using Facebook after being deluged by friend requests.
The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft chairman said managing his profile had become "way too much trouble".
"I had 10,000 people wanting to be my friends," he told the audience at a conference in India. Mr Gates said it took him a long time to go through his list of friend requests, trying to remember which people he did and didn't know.
"It was just way too much trouble, so I gave it up," he said.
Mr Gates, who was in New Delhi to receive an award for his work with his charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, also admitted he was not a "24-hour-a-day tech person".
"I read a lot and some of that reading is not on a computer," he revealed. "I'm not that big at text messaging."
He also cautioned that despite the many benefits of the digital revolution, some technology could waste people's time if they weren't careful.
Although Mr Gates has decided to delete his personal Facebook profile on the social-networking site, a Facebook fan group dedicated to Mr Gates has almost 17,000 followers, while a support page for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has around twice as many "supporters", with 34,000 fans.
【中文譯文】
由於好友申請爆棚，美國微軟公司的合作創始人比爾•蓋茨已經不再登錄Facebook。
身爲億萬富翁慈善家，以及微軟公司董事會主席的蓋茨表示，管理他的個人賬戶已經變得“太麻煩了”。
他在印度參加一次會議時告訴聽衆：“有一萬人想加我爲好友。”蓋茨稱，他要花費大量時間閱讀好友申請，並努力回想哪個人認識，哪個他不認識。
他說：“這太麻煩了，所以我放棄了。”
蓋茨還坦承自己不是一個“24小時運轉的機器人。”當時他正在新德里領獎，用於表彰他和所建的慈善組織比爾及梅林達•蓋茨基金會所做的貢獻。
他坦承道：“我讀很多書，但有些不是在電腦上讀的。我對信息交流並沒有那麼在行。”
他還提醒大家，儘管數字革命帶來了諸多好處，但如果人們不用心，一些技術反而會浪費大家的時間。
儘管蓋茨已經決定關閉自己在社交網站Facebook上的個人賬戶，但他在該網站上的“粉絲團”已經有了近17000人，而另一個支持比爾及梅林達•蓋茨基金會的網頁的“擁護者”則更達34000人，是粉絲團的近兩倍。
