ABSTRACT
Social scientists generally work on the basis of there being two types of social capital: bonding and bridging. As such, while bonding social capital is much more valuable than bridging, generally speaking the people have fewer connections that produce the former than the latter. Strikingly, in direct contrast to Ellison's Facebook study, Piwek and Johnson found that Snapchat usage was associated with bonding social capital, but less so with bridging social capital. Hence, what Marwick and boyd's paper shows is that while the people know that social media services, such as Twitter, create many new opportunities for connection, they also create new tensions and indeed, conflicts. Reflecting on the people social media connections as a whole, it is interesting to think about the inter-relationships between them.
