Internet and communities

We are back in the topic of communities. The internet has changed many things that our parents or grandparents were taught, such as the types of communities and all. It could be defined as "An online community is a a group of people with common interests who use the Internet (web sites, email, instant messaging, etc.) to communicate, work together and purse their interests over time." (Lee LeFever on CommonCraft). Lets watch a video about Social Media:


                                    Social Media explanation

It's awesome how everything is connected! This Media helps many people to communicate and makes them the life easier!


But, there are many different perspectives when studying the internet. For understanding them better, I read two texts with opposing ideas. They are "Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing", published in the New York Times; and "How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer", published in the UK's Daily Mail.


Even when just reading the titles, you know they aren't both seeing internet as something good. One of them proposes that, as the World is nowadays, teens need to be in touch through the social networks and meet new friends in games. It also says that "Those concerns about predators have been overblown" as it isn't that common as the press publishes it. In the other hand, the second text tells us everything bad of the internet, and that you may die with the use of it. A priori, I would say that the first text is right, but we can't dismiss the facts given by the second one. In the next post, I'll write my idea of the internet and online communities.