week 4 task 2 a

In terms of community and what my opinion of a community is, ebay doesn’t appear to acquire this status or even the attitudes that I feel define the term community, with the term community there appears to be an “overuse” of this meaning as suggested by (Blanchard). The internet communities allow for those who maybe outcast from general society to express themselves and in this sense community has an “emotionally positive effect” (Blanchard). My opinion is with a virtual community there still needs to be some form of relationship with the people you interact with online similar to that offline. Additionally, the belief that you have influence as well as receive it, is important because otherwise you would feel worthless(McMillan and Chavis’s (1986). I think within a community it is important to be able to relate them to provide a basis of conversation. To some degree in a community you have to trust what the people say online otherwise it isn’t a community but instead just a group of people.