What Boyd suggests here is that these "networked publics" have become spaces where teens can navigate social relationships and share information just as they do in everyday life outside outside those spaces. For example, in a chapter of Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media titled When Friends Who Talk Together Stalk Together: Online Gossip as Metacommunication, authors Graham M. Jones, Bambi B. Schieffelin, and Rachel E. Smith discuss how adolescents They “stalk,” “creep,” and “hide” in online audiences like Facebook by “scouring [the site] for information of personal interest to gossip about on IM or Instant Messenger. Gossip is a practice that occurs outside of these virtual publics, yet the Internet has improved these forms of communication for adolescents. In addition to hanging out and gossiping, teens also use these meta-communicative platforms to create and end relationships with each other. In her ethnographic account titled Email my Heart, Ilana Gershon examines how adolescents use instant messaging to “mediate breakups” (Gershon 2008). These new technologies not only have significant implications for communication, but also for literacy