Social software enables us to work together in groups because social media creates public platforms. As “Abundance in Scarcity” states, within a system, new boundaries are created while old ones are simultaneously destroyed. The Internet and social software can be thought of through the Hawaiian Slack Key Approach: people are conduits in which individual expression and interpretation is privileged. Since the Internet is boundless, it makes our online experience somewhat like our everyday experience because of our performative actions. We behave in certain ways in real life, just as we are able to express ourselves online as well.
Our public lives are shaped by social media because social technology has shifted the way we communicate on and offline. Younger people are going through the shift and feeling it, and adults do not quite understand it the way we do. Social networks are made to be another form of public life because again, the Internet is boundless and the Internet is also forever. Everything we post is on there forever. Forums, sharing links, pictures, media, etc are all apart of staying connected because you can talk about anything and share anything. People bond this way and thus, working together is easier because you can easily find real people with common interests.
