This study focuses on the affordances of bounded social media places (BSMPs), low visibility places within social media platforms like private messaging and private groups. While researchers have focused on BSMPs within specific platforms, this study presents a systematic examination of BSMPs across multiple platforms to facilitate theoretical durability. Interviews with users of BSMPs across diverse platforms ( N = 35) reveal that BSMPs discourage the affordance of visibility as they are considered private due to visibility management mechanisms and trust in known audiences. They encourage personalization as users believe they receive relevant content from and can send relevant content to specific audiences, in the absence of algorithms. BSMPs also encourage synchronicity by facilitating continuous conversations. The strength of encouragement or discouragement of these affordances varies across different BSMPs and is informed by users’ social positions. This study therefore contributes a framework and shared terminology for future research on BSMPs across social media.

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“您在群组中发布的内容将保留在群组中”：检查有界社交媒体位置的可供性


本研究重点关注有界社交媒体场所 (BSMP) 的可供性、社交媒体平台内可见度较低的场所（例如私人消息传递和私人群组）。虽然研究人员主要关注特定平台内的 BSMP，但本研究对跨多个平台的 BSMP 进行了系统检查，以促进理论的耐久性。对不同平台 BSMP 用户的采访（N = 35）表明，BSMP 阻碍了可见性的提供，因为由于可见性管理机制和对已知受众的信任，它们被认为是私有的。它们鼓励个性化，因为用户相信在没有算法的情况下，他们可以从特定受众那里收到相关内容，并且可以将相关内容发送给特定受众。 BSMP 还通过促进持续对话来鼓励同步性。不同的 BSMP 鼓励或阻止这些功能的强度各不相同，并且取决于用户的社会地位。因此，这项研究为未来跨社交媒体的 BSMP 研究提供了一个框架和共享术语。