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Fundamentally, SNSs are online worlds which facilitate the creation of personal profiles capable of connecting people with other users (Lenhart & Madden 2007a; boyd & Ellison 2008). Profiles often afford forms of social interaction and the expression of personal information such as tastes, interests, political views, sexual orientation, and so forth (Stutzman 2006). They also afford the articulation of one’s connections, commonly displayed as a ‘friends list’ (Donath & boyd 2004).
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Lambert, A. (2013). Discovering Intimacy on Facebook. In: Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_2
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