Different Communities and Their Assumptions
Uploaded by CaseyP on Oct 15, 2018
Different Communities and Their Assumptions
A community is a group of people sharing common characteristics and living together. Similarly, it is also a group of people that are committed to each other and showing unconditional love. Community brings people with different cultural diversities together through friendship. There are two types of communities which includes; online community and ground community. An online community is whereby people come together through the internet, interact freely and feel at home with each other. It is made up of imaginary friends who do not know each other personally. In an online community, individuals chat through social media, emails and online chat rooms. On the other hand, a ground community is whereby people know each other and can occasionally meet physically to catch up on life matters concerning them. A ground community is made up of individuals know each other well and communicate face to face. The ground community tends to abide by Catherine’s assumption more compared to the online community. This is because, in a ground community, people know each other at a personal level. Also, people follow the community principles since in case one fails, he or she can be traced and be held accountable. Unlike the online community, the assumptions are there but since no one can be held responsible in case of breach, community members do not take assumptions seriously. Therefore, a ground community is stronger. A ground community limits the friends one can have. Just like Mengestu, he keeps moving from one place to another. Mengestu has fewer friends because he shifts to new places and also some of the friends that he has made also changes community (123).
Online communities alleviate the need for ground communities because of the rapidly evolving technologies. Technology is the biggest factor in the online community set up. Times have changed, and the online community is becoming more dominant. An online community is also less demanding since it saves on time. It is easy to organize a meeting online and have several people attending compared to meeting personally. People do not have to travel from place to place in order to meet. There are also introvert people who can only socialize with friends online, but they do not have physical friends. Ascharya is an introvert who does not have friends. When bored and feeling lonely, he logs on Facebook or Twitter and chats with his several online...