1. 1 Tompsons main argument is that social media has actually made things less private and more intimate, where as people thought the internet would make things less intimate and more private.
2 Social media is both a positive and negative thing as now you can build better weak relataionships and keep strong ones strong, but you now have everyone know everything about you.
3You have to play the game now or else others will play it for you and decide what you look like to the online world, which by the way is becoming more intertwined with the real world.

2.Mark added the newsfeed to make it easier to find info about your friends on Facebook. It was too hard to individually go to each person and search their info. The news feed made it so that you just had to look in one place to find someones info but now everyting all your friends do is in one place. But it also took away any aspect of privacy that facebook had. In a literary sense this is bad because it is lazyness and lack of deep thought, but on the other hand this is good because the information you aquire through news feed doesn't require deep thought and therefore less time spent on it is more time you can spend thinking about real info.

3. ambient awarness is having a deeper insight into someone's life than you knew you had. You can pick up on the small things in their life that you might not if you didn't have social media. everyone experinces ambient awareness even me

4. The paradox of ambient awarnes is that even though it is a small low type of awareness where you don't really know the person, over time and several tweets you actually know the person very well and can pick up on small things that you otherwise wouldn't pick up on.

5. An ambient update is something small like "feeling better" that by itself is meaningless but take with other posts can mean, "feeling better" from the flu. to "feeling better" after being shot. It lets the person know a small bit of the person's life, that they are feeling better and now you at least know they were feeling worse at some point.

6. Social media is skimmable and that relates to present literacy in that people aren't reading as long and they aren't thinking deeply into what they read as much anymore. But that isn't bad, when it comes to books and articles people should read more and think deeper, but when it comes to social media posts, people really don't need to read a lot or think deeply because the author didn't intend much behind each post. Also because of the paradox of ambient awarness, one just needs to read a lot of little posts rather than think a lot about a few posts to garnish deeper meaning.

7. Our weak ties on social media are not really friends at all, they are acquaintances though, and social media helps people develop lots of these weak ties. These weak ties are helpful because it people a wide network of people whenever they need help with something.

8. 20 something year olds feel pressured to stay on social media sites because if they don't stay active building and maintaing their image, someone else will define their image for them. The name of the game is defense, and if you don't play then you don't get to decide how you are perceived on the internet.

9. This article defines literacy as being able to sift through the multitudes of data on social networking sites in order to determine what a person is like by unconciously adding up all their posts and putting together a story of their life. Thompson describes being literate as reading quickly enough not to waste time, but still able to determine what is going on in hundreds of peoples lives through social networking sites.

10. This whole thing was so very very long, I almost wanted to cry a little, Helen probably did cry, Avery certainly cried.