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spir-9020	Quinn, Kelly	The ‘Friending’ rules: Social norms of connection and disconnection at midlife	2013.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1978	106	45	Despite arguments that social network site connections do not possess characteristics of friendship (Condella, 2010; Tedesco, 2010), connection on social network sites for participants has substance: connections are not just passing acquaintances, but are grounded personal history, and do not include those who might share only a peripheral interest. Denver, USA 1 The ‘Friending’ rules: Social norms of connection and disconnection at midlife Kelly Quinn University of Illinois at Chicago USA kquinn8@uic.edu Abstract ‘Friending’ is most commonly understood to convey the idea that some relationship exists between individuals, yet the unnuanced and decontextualized nature of social media connections and their discursive association with friendship has obscured the meaning of this practice.	cache/spir-9020.pdf	txt/spir-9020.txt