onliNE CommuNity

First of all to understand what an online community refers lets define what a community means. A community is a relationship between individuals that share the same interests and objectives as they work together to achieve that. An online community is exactly that but instead of being face to face, the user works in media communications such as internet.

An online community can contain a huge amount of members from all over the world; this may be a big challenge as members may have different backgrounds and cultural differences but it can be a great benefit as well.

The benefit recalls in something called the Transfer of Value Triangle which it refers that every member in the community, users and administrators share their knowledge and information with the other members of the community. Information can be shared from User to User, User to Administrator or Administrator to User, as we can see in the picture below:

In conclusion, online communities can be now consider the future of communication, as its capacities and uses are increasing drastically, it is becoming more common to see developers like Playstation or Nintendo creating online community worlds so impressive that you can feel you have more stuff to do online that offline, anyway I still prefer the old face to face way. haha