My reasons aren't much different then the ones you listed for yourself.

But I must add that I think the web has tremendous potential for creating community... and it gives me goosebumps thinking about it!

Oh, and I love getting online because, if you're clever enough, you have access to almost limitless information... woohoo!



kjc6688 wrote:
> This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started.
>
> However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts.
>
> So... community
>
> I think we lack it
> I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented
> I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it
> but those examples are modeled after the "real" world
> in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented
> everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized
> I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning
> I think I need community
> I think the internet can help
> if we/it do it right
> I get online to commune with people
> with people I know
> with people I can meet and talk to face to face also
>
> Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?)
> What do you think of community?
> What is community?

Indeed... I arrived in Manhattan today. Unpacking is a disaster! Looking forward to gettin to the Quorum soon. I'll stop by tomorrow? I hear you're giving a blogging presentation to the TechBytes group. I've been invited to give a presentation on Diigo and social bookmarking... we should brainstorm. Oh, right... this is suppose to be a topic about community... uhh... community rules! Yea!




kjc6688 wrote:
> The man, the legend, is back!
>
>
>
> abo46n2 wrote:
> > My reasons aren't much different then the ones you listed for yourself.
> >
> > But I must add that I think the web has tremendous potential for creating community... and it gives me goosebumps thinking about it!
> >
> > Oh, and I love getting online because, if you're clever enough, you have access to almost limitless information... woohoo!
> >
> >
> >
> > kjc6688 wrote:
> > > This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started.
> > >
> > > However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts.
> > >
> > > So... community
> > >
> > > I think we lack it
> > > I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented
> > > I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it
> > > but those examples are modeled after the "real" world
> > > in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented
> > > everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized
> > > I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning
> > > I think I need community
> > > I think the internet can help
> > > if we/it do it right
> > > I get online to commune with people
> > > with people I know
> > > with people I can meet and talk to face to face also
> > >
> > > Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?)
> > > What do you think of community?
> > > What is community?