In effect the hyperconnection of Facebook changes the nature of our relationships by turning our friends into audiences and us into performers. “The world of online social networking is practically homogenous in one sense,” writes Christine Rosen. “Its users are committed to self-exposure. The creation and conspicuous consumption of intimate details and images of one’s own and others’ lives is the main activity in the social-networking world. There is no room for reticence, there is only revelation.”