网络社交历史与中国早期网民个体生活空间变迁

中国最早的网络移民自始至终伴随了中国互联网的发展,他们的网络使用行为形成了一段不长但至少可以追溯的历史。早期的网络社交将个体从现实物理空间局限中解放出来,具有高蹈于日常生活之上的虚拟色彩;随着网络空间中现实好友的增多和移动位置社交的兴起,网络空间的虚拟色彩渐渐褪去;如今,日常生活中的人际交往不再是在某一单一空间中进行,人们不断地在物理空间与网络空间切换,亦或同时在场。

Discussion on the Social Networking and Individual Life Space

In the early stage of internet development in China, it sets people free out from the fetters of physical space with a virtual fascination; with the increasing numbers of old friends transferring online and the development of location based socializing service, the magic of internet fade; nowadays, the everyday interpersonal contacts happens no longer in single dimensional space. People constantly transfer between the physical and internet space, even stay in multiple spaces at the same time. The Chinese early netizen this essay focus on has experienced through the development stages of Chinese internet which is helpful to study this issue.