Monday, April 28, 2008
Online Communities (after presentation)
After the presentation on the topic of Online communitites, there are several arguments that I should consider deeply. the most important is the the question of 'Real'. As there are so many online communitites on the Internet nowadays, such as forums, communicate platforms (e.g. msn) and social webpage (e.g. facebook), etc. We chat with each other in front of the computer monitor at our own home, without any interaction, but we would smile, laugh, cry, anger or sad, etc. all these emotions and the chat history become part of our lives and memories, yet all these things were done by text or image. so, are these experience real or not? it is very hard to define as we are experiencing them but not with real people. This is a good question for all of us to think carefully. Besides, the interaction among people became less with the development of technology and we should bare in mind that our reality is through interaction, we should not rely on technology too much or we would lose the social skills in the near future.
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Thanks Carolene. I agree that in nowadays online communication really helps us to interact with others easier than before and the face to face interactions are becoming less. However, I believe that the interactions through online communities are also one kind of interactions. Although we are not face to face talking with someone, the communication (or the action of talking with another) is real. We cannot omit that the things we do online is fake because of the “untouchable” space. “I think therefore I am”, I believe that the online communication is real since those online platforms (msn, facebook, blogs etc.) are just other tools for us to communicate, like the telephones. I think the most important is the way we deal with the new technologies.
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