Thesis Title: Subtitle

List of Figures

Figure1: Facebook requesting additional information to ‘complete’ my profile 129

Figure 2: Location and friend based interest suggestions 130
Figure 3: Spatial translucence in action 171
Figure 4: Zoe removing her birthday information 180

List of Tables

Table 1: Questionnaire, Age 76
Table 2: Questionnaire, Gender 77
Table 3: Questionnaire, Educational Attainment 77
Table 4: Interview Participant Demographics 77-79
Abbreviations

ANT	Actor network theory
CMC	Computer mediated communication
HIV	Human immunodeficiency virus
ICT	Information communication technology
IM	Instant message
IRC	Internet relay chat
LGBT	Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
OED	Oxford English Dictionary
RDS	Respondent driven sampling
SNS	Social networking site
US	United States
WET	Work extending technology

Chapter 1
Introduction: Facebook and Late Modernity

Never before have there been so many ways to communicate with each other. Over the past 100 years, communication technologies have developed rapidly. Previously, the primary modes of communication were face-to-face, telephone calls or letters, but these are now supplemented with emails, mobile phones, text messages, instant chat messaging, internet message boards, video calling and social networking sites, among many others. While innovations such as Google Glass¹ are currently used by only a privileged few, inventions such as Google Glass demonstrate the potential of future technologies and the growing myriad of possibilities which shape how we communicate with others. However, these possibilities are not always positively embraced.