(August 17, 2011 at 8:38 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: What do you consider a community? People who can actually see each other? I don't actually see my damn neighbors most days, or talk to them, and we're a "community". What makes this NOT a community?
Gee, Summer,for once I actually disagree with you.
Internet forums are not communities within my understanding of the word,
I have never met any of the people here and do not expect top. There is no real mutual support nor indeed any real intimacy.
Internet and other forms of social networking are poor substitutes for interacting in real life ,but an interesting addition..
I quite like some of the personalities here,others such as (most of) the godbotherers, I tolerate (and no doubt vice versa) However, I have no emotional attachment to anyone here.
To claim an internet forum is a community is in my opinion to use the word very loosely indeed. I looked it up in my Concise Oxford ,and it just doesn't fit the definition in my opinion.
I guess we may need to agree to differ.
