In contemporary times, with the emergence of digital technologies and social media, imagining realities and communicating have become easier. Now, everyone could easily communicate, and the question of communication becomes more grave when they move away from their home. They face different sorts of dilemmas, like constructing private spaces and navigating the spaces through their relationships with others. The tech-mediated communication, that creates a sense of ‘comfort’ as well as ‘pervadedness’, ‘space crunch’. In a digitalized era where connections can be established at every space, transcending boundaries, private spaces are possibly negotiated, which is the main theme of the paper. This paper would explore how “techno-social connectedness” (Chayko 2014) reshapes ‘space’ in our everyday lives. ‘Space’, as Lefebvre (Molotch 1993) contends, is produced and reproduced by humans who create ‘space’ in order to live within it. Joe Bailey (2000) expands on the meaning of ‘private’ in the article, where he contests that private space is separated and protected from public control, protected from other domestic gazes. But in recent times, these dichotomies have transcended because of the increasing use of technology, as Turkle (2011) argues, social media has snapped our freedom, making us trapped in a world we cannot escape from. Thus, it seems fascinating to investigate how young women leave their homes and create "private spaces" that might be violated due to the persistent notifications that serve as a constant reminder of their techno-social interconnectedness to the public sphere (Boeder 2005). In this article, I attempt to explore this by interviewing 30 Indian women from BHU, Varanasi, on their decisions to leave their homes, adapt to a new city, and create their ‘private spaces’ in Varanasi.
