The following quotes reflect boyd’s arguments in her first chapter.

 

“…regardless of how they use privacy settings, teens must grapple with who can see their

profile, who actually does see it, and how those who do see it will interpret it” (32).

 

“The popularity of social media in recent years has produced a significant rise in

nonfiction or so-called real names identity production, but it is also important to

recognize that there continue to be environments where teens gather anonymously or don

crafted identities to create a separation between the kinds of social contexts that are

viable offline and those that can be imagined online” (41).

 

“Matthew and his classmate had very different ideas of how to use Facebook and who

their imagined audiences might be, but their online presence was interconnected because

of the technical affordances of Facebook. The were each affecting the other’s attempts at

self-representation, and their sharing and friending norms created unexpected conflicts.

Even when teens have a coherent sense of what they deem to be appropriate in a

particular setting, their friends and peers do not necessarily share their sense of decorum

and norms. Resolving the networked nature of social contexts is complicated” (50).

 

Though I was already aware of many of the topics boyd discussed in the first chapter of It’s Complicated, I found the section about association most interesting. Even if you do not invite certain people to see your social media, they may see it due to one of your friends inviting them to see their pages.

One idea I did not agree with was that the officer who displayed a photo of a teen drinking had violated the teen’s privacy. If the photo was posted online for anyone in the world to see, then that picture was not private.