ABSTRACT
Suddenly, socializing online was no longer about hiding from the real world, because the two were becoming indistinguishable.
SARAH LACEY (2008, 96)
If you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist.
SKYLER SIERRA Interviewed at age 18 (boyd 2008a, 170)
Online social networks allow members to formally articulate and maintain connections between themselves and others, commonly referred to as ‘friendships’. e soware lets users create a prole describing themselves and their social relationships, and share various types of personal information such as snippets of news about what they are doing and where they have been, music preferences, photos, video clips etc.
