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easy to separate out work relationships from friends and family, networked com-
munities tend to overlap, thus blurring the boundaries between them and creat-
ing phenomena known as “networked individualism” where each individual acts
as a switchboard between networks (Wellman et al., 2003). The phenomenon of
overlapping networks means that the unintended audience is almost always
greater than the intended one. A status update that may be construed as harmless
and funny to one’s friends could be taken an entirely different way by family or
colleagues. This is not to say networked communities ...