Class theme blog

In class we discussed about people using the interent to create a soical life or some form of community and would we consider it that. Some agreed and some disagreed. I think that in some way it can be a community. I guess the community can communicate on chatrooms but discussing important or more useful information rather than just chatting to meet people or talk about celebrities and spread their opinion about a topic because that just seems like something to do on one's own spare time and having nothing else. But to communicate effectively in a neighborhood awarness or say for example woman encouraging each other to lose weight or how to keep your kids safe online seems more of what one may label to be a social group because what parent wouldnt want to protect their child or a community; safety first!

I would call it a community within an online social group (OSG) hehe. The internet, like most advance technology, for communication has become more impersonal I think. Conversations with someone tends to be more misunderstood than understood and the language is being recreated. I wonder about the people, psychologicaly, who live on the net more than they do exploring the world and breathing actual air than the one inside their homes. Not that their is anything wrong with them but why do they feel that making friends and being social online is better than meeting them in the "real world"? As much as it is that we can not trust anyone we see, why is it that some can trust those that they cannot? Is it because we cannot see them there is less chances of their being some type of harm to be committed (although it has been said that it is more dangerous on ground than it is in air) or bypass any types of judgements or rejections passed when one doesnt see really how one looks?

Anywho, not only have the OSG may perhaps become less social in person and some may disagree. I would not consider them so much an actual social group because they are just doing what everyone else would do to communicate but through device. Im assuming if we were not so advance in technology would those who like to hide out in their cave room even step outside? Probably so or probably not. So, I guess I can say the internet just made us alot closer like some mobile phone commerical say when they advertise their products.

Whether it is a social group or a community I don't honestly know to each is own and what these two labels mean to him or her. I just wish him or her luck to the person trying to meet someone and forbid any harm done. I mean anyone can say just about anything and post just about anything. Don't get me wrong people in person can also do the same but those behind a screen have probably a beter chance of getting away with it. i.e. a man saying he's 20 when he is realy 65 eeeww!!! So those who would call themselves an OSG your discretion is in your hands and may luck be with you. Enjoy!