To me, community can be so many things. It can take place in a wide variety of places and deal with a huge group of people. These people don’t have to necessarily all be the same and share all the same opinions, but the thing that brings them all together is just one similar feeling or idea that they all have in common.

If we are talking about what makes the  community you live in, then bam you live in the same area and share that with others around you, some one thing in common, your community. Now that is pretty general and most people know about the community they live in, but in these days of technology communities have spread to online. The idea of online communities had to be invented when the technology allowed for online chat rooms and web sites such as friendster, myspace and facebook.

People from across the world could now come together in one place, one site to share there thoughts and feelings. As we discussed in class there is an online community about anything and everything. If you are thinking about it, then others are too. You need help or tips about parenting, what to do when your baby won’t stop crying, what to feed a one year old? Bada bing, bada boom there is an online community for you.

Back in 1999 the hot topics for online communities was apparently for health problems and electronic commerce (Online Communities). Now, I would say that facebook by far has the biggest community of the online world. What is next we can only imagine.

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