A New Social Order: Mechanisms for Social Network Site Boundary Regulation
A New Social Order: Mechanisms for Social Network Site Boundary Regulation
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社会新秩序:社交网站边界规制机制
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2011
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H. Lipford
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P. Wisniewski;David C. Wilson;H. Lipford
Social Network Site (SNS) use has become ubiquitous, with hundreds of millions of users sharing and interacting online. Yet, constant, unbounded sharing and interacting with others can cause social crowding and emotional harm (Altman 1975). We explore interpersonal boundary regulation on Social Network Sites to understand these tradeoffs and examine how to improve the social experiences of users. In this paper, we present a taxonomy of five categories of interpersonal boundary mechanisms relevant to SNSs and the specific interface controls that sites provide for managing these boundaries. We qualitatively research how SNS users employ these mechanisms and the boundary issues that arise while interacting online with others. These results present a first step towards a model of SNS interpersonal boundary regulation.