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67 In her book, The Psychology of the Internet, Patricia Wallace discusses the impressionistic
tendencies that people exhibit online. She explains that given a fixed amount of online
information (what could be on a connector profile page), people have the tendency to try to
maximize their “impression formation shortcuts” – exerting the least possible amount of energy
and work, people will try to glean as much information as possible about others who are online.
See Patricia Wallace, The Psychology of the Internet, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1999), pp. 14-37.
68 See Appendix D.
69 The proceedings of the 2005 Online Community Summit touched on most of these norms.
Some themes are consistent with the guidelines issued by Chris Nagele, and his company Wildbit,
in the Social Networks Research Report. The document is an informative resource about online
community design. See Wildbit, Social Networks Research Report, (Philadelphia: Wildbit,
2005). It can be downloaded at the following URL: http://www.wildbit.com/wildbit-sn-report.pdf
70 For news clippings regarding these hearings, see Declan McCullagh, “Congress Targets Social
Networking Sites,” c|net NEWS.COM, June 30, 2006; Red Orbit, “Teen Websites Face
Investigation,” Red Orbit, July 3, 2006. Also see the Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigation’s webpage, available at the following URL:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/subcommittees/Oversight_and_Investigations_Action.htm
71 http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/tech/tec14.htm
72 See Appendix D.
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