1. The Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
Within a "small town life" you are not able to hide yourself, everybody knows you and you know everybody, social media has created this through ambient awareness (Thompson 585). ... With a large amount of loose ties comes a large consequence of less privacy, for example; when Mark Zuckerberg first developed Facebook, there wasn't a privacy option, "For students, it was now like being, at a giant open party filled with everyone you know able to eavesdrop on what everyone else was saying, all the time"(Thompson 584). ... They choose to show what they like or not. ... B...
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