The computer and the internet are taking an essential role in daily communication. The temporalities associated with them, or the digital temporalities are also taking shape as an element in one's daily temporal experiences. The paper sets out to explore digital temporalities and serves as a timely study in the emerging field. The paper discovers that the digital temporalities reflect the post-modernity and plasticity of the internet, which are further marked by their temporal features of timelessness, meaninglessness and the state of mix-up. The plasticity of the internet is also realized in the erosion of a series of pre-existing boundaries. The digital temporalities are also affected by the trend of convergence in the internet, which leads to the process of remediation and multiple mediation. Primary examples of discussion are the social networking sites (SNSs) which are most demonstrative of the temporal features of the internet, and special attention is given to Facebook which headquarters in the US and Renren which headquarters in China. The paper aims to demonstrate the theme by making comparative analysis between the two SNSs.
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