Online community: http://twitter.com
The focus of this community is networking and connecting people with one another.
The services Twitter provide are: messaging, activities- quizzing, finding people, connecting to twitter via cell phones, allows people to comment on others' pages, post photos, engage in conversation.
The site is very interactive allowing people to communicate with others, comment on photos and posts, updates people with what their friends are currently doing, and involves and keeps the person interested - by having quiz', games, and groups to join.
People choose to contribute to this community as it is a form of communicating and keeping in contact and updated with friends and family, especially if they live far away. This is also a community in which people meet, make new friends.
Potential ethical issues that may arise in this community are that people can access anyone's account, view their friend's account, limited privacy.
This community holds over traditional notions of community are:
- it involves all types of people
- geographical location does not matter
- can engage in conversation when it suits you - ie at night, in the morning and the person replying is the same
Although though this community has benefits, it lacks face to face communication that that of traditional communities can. In today's society people getting used to communicating with others via technologies.
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