对于这些年轻人而言，一个在线的社区网络相当于年长世代的人通过线下活动建立的社交团体。

For these young people, an online social network mirrors the social groups established by older generations through offline activities.

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社交网络、博客、群组都是“对个人或群组如何得到一个量体裁衣又容易利用的网站的一连串世代更替”。

Social networks, blogs, groups are "successive iterations on how an individual or a group can have a web site that is tailored for what they want to get out of it very very simply".

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在本世代初微软尚作为一个恃强凌弱的垄断者而广为畏惧时，它即试图为整个网络提供一种名为“通行证”的“一次性登陆”的解决方案，但却以失败告终，因为没有人登陆它。

At the beginning of this decade Microsoft, then feared as a bullying monopolist, tried but failed to create a "single sign-on" called "Passport" for the whole web. Nobody signed on.

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