For example: Two people can go to the same internet *location* (facebook.com) but have mutually unintelligible experiences—literally, not in the same language. Are these the same spaces? Different spaces? Where is that space located: The URL? The server location? Do we consider the Facebook page for NYC as belonging to NYC-as-space, or is it distinct? What about photos posted at a party? Are those posts also "at" the party, even though they can be viewed by non-attendees?

Consider the rules of this space, where the limits of movement are constrained by the affordances of the technology as strongly and forcefully as our bodies are constrained by the laws of nature. But wait: these affordances, unlike the laws of nature, are the products of human labor, and subject to continual change!

And to say that internet space is wholly contained by the internet is a mistake: It constantly permeates out physical space, with every buzz of a phone and push notification, with every lol and smdh. In ‘Out in the Country’, Mary L. Grey suggests a model of digital worlds viewed not as escapist media, but as an extension of the physical plane into new and varied dimensions. boyd, also, tends to see it as a way of finding place, not leaving it.

This kind of thought for me should be the groundwork of any attempt to design a social media. How can you develop social spaces without a good theory of space?