Comments on: Virtual destruction of the local community? http://www.yappari.co.uk/archive/2008/04/19/virtual-destruction-of-the-local-community/ The musings and rants of two thirty-something Englishmen...of course! Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:39:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Ian http://www.yappari.co.uk/archive/2008/04/19/virtual-destruction-of-the-local-community/#comment-45132 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:04:51 +0000 http://www.yappari.co.uk/archive/2008/04/19/virtual-destruction-of-the-local-community/#comment-45132 I don't disagree - all I supopse I'm saying is that our real community is effectively in a 1.0 state. Virtual communities are thriving. Is it all possible to apply our virtual 2.0 skills to develop an effective, safe and more pleasant real 2.0 community? Taking some of the best of the online and moving it back into the offline world... conceptually speaking? I don’t disagree - all I supopse I’m saying is that our real community is effectively in a 1.0 state. Virtual communities are thriving. Is it all possible to apply our virtual 2.0 skills to develop an effective, safe and more pleasant real 2.0 community? Taking some of the best of the online and moving it back into the offline world… conceptually speaking?

]]> by: Daniel http://www.yappari.co.uk/archive/2008/04/19/virtual-destruction-of-the-local-community/#comment-43381 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:03:35 +0000 http://www.yappari.co.uk/archive/2008/04/19/virtual-destruction-of-the-local-community/#comment-43381 Isn't the beauty of online communities and even online friends that you get to choose who they are? You don't really choose your neighbours. Other than living in the same street, what do you have in common with them? Whereas online you can seek out like-minded people. Whether they have similar interests, play the same sport/games as you, have a passion for 18th century English folk music, or whatever. You have something in common with them, other than a postcode. Isn’t the beauty of online communities and even online friends that you get to choose who they are?

You don’t really choose your neighbours. Other than living in the same street, what do you have in common with them?

Whereas online you can seek out like-minded people. Whether they have similar interests, play the same sport/games as you, have a passion for 18th century English folk music, or whatever. You have something in common with them, other than a postcode.

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