AMANDA HYNAN FINAL THESIS PDF

Amanda: has Facebook changed the way you socialise with people
Xavier: ‘yes’ (nods head “especially when I am here” (referring to the
residential college)
Keith and Nicholas explained how they use Facebook to keep in touch with friends
from old school
Keith: “school”
Amanda: okay, that’s your old school
Keith: yeah [crosstalk]
Amanda: or [crosstalk] people here
Keith: (points to the distance)
Amanda: right people in your old school
Keith: yeah
Amanda: so you use Facebook to keep in touch with people who you don’t see
anymore, people who were in your school but they’re doing different things
now so you keep in touch with people you don’t see everyday
Keith: yeah
Amanda: and do you use it to keep in touch with people who you might have
known in the past, say from school or from home?
Nicholas: yeah
Amanda: yup
Nicholas: “old school”
Amanda: old school, yup, so it’s very useful for that
Nicholas: yeah “(name of old school)”
Amanda: oh okay that’s the name of your old school
Nicholas: yeah
Keith also describes how he finds his old school friends and initiates contact with
them
Keith: “I send them a text”
Amanda: Oh okay. Do you find your friend on Facebook and then send them a
message or do you send them a text on a telephone. I don’t quite understand
what you mean sorry
Keith: “I find them”
Amanda: Right, so you find them on Facebook and then you send them a text
on Facebook
Keith: yeah
Amanda: who do you use Facebook to keep in contact with
Olivia: “my mates and my old teachers”
Harriet: I c-a-n g-e-t i-n t-o-u-c-h w-i-t-h f-r-i-e-n-d-s I k-n-o-w i-n
(country name).
Amanda: Right, did you used to live in (country name)
Harriet: ‘no’ (shakes head)
Amanda: Have you got family in (country name)
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