The Friendship Factor
Especially in Facebook, one’s connections are labeled as “friends”, and one’s profile by default will treat all this so called friends in the same way, they will access all our content regardless of the fact if it was intended for them or not. We can have, as one professor stated a very heterogeneous mix of people there: friends, colleagues, professors, students, relatives and past relatives. The level of acquaintanceship is expected to vary from one connection to the other. Wellman et al. (1996) (as cited in Hersberger, Murray & Rioux, 2007, p. 2) stated that (see section 2.2.1), we can have strong, intermediate or weak ties, depending on the friend.
There is a general concern among the participants of this study about adding new friends to their social networks. This is mainly because of privacy issues, we want to be able to protect the information we put and to be safe among the persons we add to our networks and maybe it also has to do with having some sense of freedom in the way we express ourselves through them. This has to do with Kling and McKim (2000) (as cited in Matzat, 2009) second barrier related to trust when it comes to researcher’s use of the Internet (see section 2.3.2.1.); this is discussed on the “Negative Consequences” section (see section 4.3.16).
As we have seen above, in the data analysis part, we can name two acceptable exceptions to the rule “never add someone you don’t know in person”: the friend of friend and the background exceptions. The first one is very self explanatory and as said before it is based on the principle that “a friend of yours is a friend of mine.” In the second exception we can put several things inside that label: know the person’s name from somewhere, it can be a colleague, a professor or a student. For example; there could be a common background based on profession or places of study. You can do a background check on that prospective friend, by searching and checking him/her profile on social networks or on the Internet. It is also possible to ask common friends or even ask this person looking for a reason to be safe on adding him/her. We can see that as Marchionini (2009) stated (see section 2.2.1), the acquaintance process is very different than in the “real world society”, because here it doesn’t matter too much to know somebody in person in order to add him/her to our network.
The Friendship FactorEspecially in Facebook, one’s connections are labeled as “friends”, and one’s profile by default will treat all this so called friends in the same way, they will access all our content regardless of the fact if it was intended for them or not. We can have, as one professor stated a very heterogeneous mix of people there: friends, colleagues, professors, students, relatives and past relatives. The level of acquaintanceship is expected to vary from one connection to the other. Wellman et al. (1996) (as cited in Hersberger, Murray & Rioux, 2007, p. 2) stated that (see section 2.2.1), we can have strong, intermediate or weak ties, depending on the friend.There is a general concern among the participants of this study about adding new friends to their social networks. This is mainly because of privacy issues, we want to be able to protect the information we put and to be safe among the persons we add to our networks and maybe it also has to do with having some sense of freedom in the way we express ourselves through them. This has to do with Kling and McKim (2000) (as cited in Matzat, 2009) second barrier related to trust when it comes to researcher’s use of the Internet (see section 2.3.2.1.); this is discussed on the “Negative Consequences” section (see section 4.3.16).As we have seen above, in the data analysis part, we can name two acceptable exceptions to the rule “never add someone you don’t know in person”: the friend of friend and the background exceptions. The first one is very self explanatory and as said before it is based on the principle that “a friend of yours is a friend of mine.” In the second exception we can put several things inside that label: know the person’s name from somewhere, it can be a colleague, a professor or a student. For example; there could be a common background based on profession or places of study. You can do a background check on that prospective friend, by searching and checking him/her profile on social networks or on the Internet. It is also possible to ask common friends or even ask this person looking for a reason to be safe on adding him/her. We can see that as Marchionini (2009) stated (see section 2.2.1), the acquaintance process is very different than in the “real world society”, because here it doesn’t matter too much to know somebody in person in order to add him/her to our network.
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