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littlesarbonn -> RE: Communication does not create "Community" (4/29/2010 7:49:23 PM)
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I have an alternative perspective to this, mainly because I see this post as a response to the 21st century interpretation of community post-Internet, whereas I still see things from the perspective of when the Internet evolved into what it is today. Back in the late 1980s, when online identities were still in their infancy, I was part of what I would consider a bdsm community that existed before the Internet took hold. But during that time, a new identity was created for those into the scene who were all quickly becoming a part of message boards, newsgroups, chat rooms and bbs systems. These people never had a chance to interact with each other before, mainly because they didn't even know others of similar tastes were located so close in proximity to them. But what we started to discover was that people who were doing their own community things were in little circles of their own, and those circles started to intermingle with each other, until we had larger communities of groups that had never coexisted before, mainly because of ignorance of knowing about each other.
It was a really unique time because people started coming together and meeting each other for the first time, and a lot of different organizations came about during this time. Some were strong before, but others were brand new, and some morphed into something completely different. It was a truly interesting time to be a part of that "community" because it quickly went away once everyone and his brother discovered the Internet. Now, it's not that same kind of organizational community anymore, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't at one time.
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