Anthropological studies of the internet have traced the emergence of new forms of intimacy in various arenas of life, including friendship. Drawing upon an ethnography of Facebook and its use among young lower-middle-class men in Pune, Maharashtra, western India, the article investigates the discourse of friendship young men deploy on the platform. Although moulded in the image of their intimate friendships, their interactions with one another on-screen function to perform the ties of kinship. The distinctions young men draw between Facebook and their friendships off-screen reveal the particular forms male friendships take, the egalitarian ideal they contain, the privacy they require, and the care taken to foster them. Through examining the tensions between local articulations of intimacy and the publicity Facebook affords, I show how possibilities for online friendship, rather than being propelled by their freedom from external social conditions, are limited by the constraints of kinship.

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兄弟、朋友和敌人：在印度西部避免 Facebook 上的亲密关系

互联网的人类学研究追踪了新形式的亲密关系在生活的各个领域的出现，包括友谊。本文借鉴 Facebook 的民族志及其在印度西部马哈拉施特拉邦浦那的年轻中下阶层男性的使用情况，调查了年轻男性在该平台上展开的友谊话语。虽然塑造了他们亲密友谊的形象，但他们在屏幕上的互动起到了执行亲属关系的作用。年轻人在 Facebook 和他们在屏幕外的友谊之间的区别揭示了男性友谊所采取的特殊形式、它们所包含的平等主义理想、他们需要的隐私以及培养他们所采取的措施。通过研究当地的亲密关系与 Facebook 提供的宣传之间的紧张关系，