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This nicely illustrates how norms of distribution become problematic online: It would generally be considered acceptable for someone to take a photo at a party, and show that photo to all of the others who were also at that party. Yet, the person would then not send that photo to all of the families and work colleagues of everyone at that party. So photos appropriately shared in one context, may not be appropriate in the context of the entire social network. (2009: 986) While people can untag photos, Besmer and Lipford’s participants found this unsatisfactory.

In a legal sense, privacy is founded on the ‘right to be let alone’ and is routed in protecting the domestic sphere from state and media intrusion (Warren & Brandeis 1890). Privacy rights are ideologically associated with individual rights, the right to control personal spaces and information and, hence, emerge with modernisation and liberal individualism (Katsh 1989). Alongside a discourse of ‘rights’ is one of control and agency. Privacy can be defined as the ability to control access to oneself and one’s information (Westin 1970).

This, in turn, suggests they are changing, and this change is significant. Hence, intimacy online should be considered virtual rather than virtuous. That is, as something becoming. 2 Frameworks: Privacy, Performance, Social Capital Facebook provides various social benefits for my participants. However, it also concerns them by making intimacy problematic. In response they develop novel solutions to these problems. I seek to theorise these problems and solutions through mobilising appropriate conceptual frameworks.

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