Wednesday, December 9, 2015

What makes a community? Does tech provide?

Community:

  1. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
  2. a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Above is Google's definition of community, and that is easy enough to grasp when you think about it. So what makes a community is people living and working in the same place or have things in common. So when thinking about what makes a community we think about neighborhoods and cities due to people living in that commonplace and sometimes having characteristics in common. Now we should look at it in a way to figure out if technology provides that same sense of community. I will say that yes technology does provide that same sense, and here is a big example...Facebook. There are over a billion people that have a Facebook account these days and you all live online in the same place and there are many things that many different people have in common. That's why there are groups on facebook so that those who have an interest in hat wearing kittens can all talk about it. To me there is Reddit, in which you join subreddits, specific reddits, to talk about and enjoy things that you like and have in common with other people online. One day once VR starts getting more and more advance and common there will be literal communities that you can walk around and talk to people you see online. So to answer the overall question a community is a place where people live or work together and/or have common interests and have a feeling of belonging, and you can get that through technology online.

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