VOA慢速英语:New Study Links Using Facebook and Living Longer(翻译)

A well-known study in 1979 found thatpeople who socialize with others live longer than people who keep to themselves.A new

study shows that socializing online may have health benefits as well.
早在1979年，曾有人做过一项十分著名的研究发现，有人际交往的人群要比杜绝人事的人群长寿。而最新研究表明，在网上与他人进行社交活动同样有益健康。

To test the theory, researchers from Harvard, Yale, Northeastern and the University of California at San Diego looked at the Facebook profiles of 12 million people.Then they compared the profiles with the California Department of Public Health records over a two-year period from 2011 to 2013.
为验证该理论，来自哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、东北大学以及加州大学圣地亚哥分校的数名研究人员查看了1200万网民的Facebook个人档案。紧接着，他们又将这些档案拿来与加州公共卫生部从2011年到2013年的两年的记录作比较。

The researchers found that people with more friends online were less likely to die than similar people who were not as connected.
研究人员发现，基本情况类似的两拨人，在网上拥有好友越多，轻生意识越弱。

The researchers published their findings in an article titled“Online social integration is associated with reduced mortality risk” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
研究人员还将他们的调查结果整理成文章并进行了出版，文章题目叫做《网上社会整合可以降低死亡风险》，见于《美国国家科学院院刊》。

Not all Facebook usage was connected to a longer life.Getting friend requests related to reduced mortality, but sending friend requests did not.
但这并不意味着只要使用Facebook就可以延长寿命。收到好友请求可以降低死亡率，而发送好友请求则不然。

Similarly, posting photos and being tagged in photos was connected to living longer,but sending messages on Facebook was not.People who were tagged in many photos had the lowest mortality rates in the study.
同样的，上传照片或者被别人通过照片来标记会延长寿命，而在Facebook上发送消息则不然。研究表明，被别人用很多照片来标记的人死亡率最低。

Some diseases had a significant reduction of mortality with Facebook users.Deaths from infections, diabetes, mental illness or dementia, heart disease, stroke,other cardiovascular diseases, liver disease, and homicide all were significantly lower for Facebook users than for non-users.
有些疾病的致死率在Facebook用户群当中明显下降。比如他们患传染病、糖尿病、心理疾病、痴呆、心脏病、中风、其它心脑血管疾病和肝脏疾病以及过失杀人等几率，就比不使用该软件的人群明显低很多。

Other causes of death did not show a relation to Facebook usage,including sexually transmitted diseases, several types of cancer, unintentional injuries, drug overdoses, and suicides.
调查显示，其它致死因素与使用Facebook并没有什么关联，这些因素中包括患上性传播疾病或者几种癌症、遭遇意外伤害、过量用药以及自杀等。

The study did not examine any other social media sites to see if using them prolonged life.Also, two of the researchers worked at Facebook while the study was being conducted.
本次研究并没有对其他社交媒体网站进行调查，以查看使用这些网站是不是也能起到延长寿命的效果。另外，进行本次调查时，有两名研究人员就在Facebook任职。

William Hobbes, one of the researchers who was a postdoctorate fellow at Northeastern University,and co-author of the study, worked at Facebook as a research intern in 2013.
威廉·霍布斯是这些研究人员之一，他曾是东北大学的一名博士后研究人员，而作为本次研究的共同作者，他于2013年就在Facebook担任过实习研究员。

Hobbes said that Facebook agreed not to interfere with the research, no matter what the result was.But, he added, researchers “were pretty confident that we were going to find this result.”
霍布斯称，Facebook承诺不会干预本次调查研究，不管结果如何都不会。另外他还补充说，研究人员“很自信我们一定能得到这项结果”。

The researchers were careful to say that their results showedan associative relationship between using Facebook and living longer, not a causal one. In other words, researchers did not prove that using Facebook makes someone live longer.The study simply showed a connection between a longer life and some activities users do on Facebook.
研究人员曾谨慎表态，他们的调查结果显示，使用Facebook与长寿之间有相关性，但不是因果关系。换句话说，研究人员并没有证明使用Facebook就一定能长寿。研究只是向大家展示了，长寿与网友在使用Facebook时所进行的一些活动有一定的联系。

The researchers say the findings may be able to help showhow online social networks can help improve people’s health on a global scale.
研究人员称，这些调查结果可以向大家展示，在线社交网络是如何在全球范围内帮助改善人们健康状况的。

I’m Jonathan Evans.
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