ABSTRACT
Proximity and distance are fundamentally related to the way in which experience relatedness, in both the online and offline life. The architecture of each social networking sites (SNS) will have an impact on how proximity and distance are activated psychologically. The SNS offers a particular kind of space for children, young people, and adults to explore both their identities and the nature of their intersubjective spaces. In much the same way that D. W. Winnicott describes how infant’s play is a symbolic and practical exploration of their limits under the guidance of their care-takers in the context of their holding within the facilitating environment. Of all SNSs, Facebook presents itself as an important exemplar of an SNS operating in transitional space, not only because it is the most popular SNS in the world, indicating that it is wildly attractive to people across the globe but also because Facebook relationships for the most part, are extensions of real relationships that exist offline.
