Why We Would Always Need the Community.

We all, human races, are special. So many characteristics of us make us different from other living creatures, for example, animals, plants and other species. The most noticeable characteristic to recognize about us, the people, is … the “Community”.

What will come to your mind when you finally hear the word “Community”? Some people would probably still associate the word “Community” with certain exclusive or high class society. Well, back then perhaps it often sounded like that. However, nowadays some people will have various definitions about “Community”:

• a group of people who share the same nationality
• a group of people who share the same religion
• a group of people who come from the same generation
• a group of people who join the same club
• a group of people who share the same interest

And so on.

That’s why when we enter the realm of World Wide Web; we will also find the online communities in various parts of the Internet. You will find various sites where a lot of people are coming together, sharing the same interests and topics. We will find them in various blogs, directories, forums, and other kind of social networking sites.

And these people know the benefits of joining the community. They know the power of community.

Now think about it, we exist in this world, the vast world on our planet Earth. Now imagine your position, standing inside the vast real world, in this case, you are a visitor and you know nobody in current area, you know nothing about the neighborhood, you are just coming and you haven’t been familiar with all things inside this world. What do you feel? What would you do?

Don’t you feel the situation of being lost? Will you just stand there and stay in your confusion? You will certainly seek for any information, won’t you?

Internet is a vast virtual world. The situation will be just about the same. Being alone in the midst of the vast virtual world will make some people feel lost, especially when they are still new comers. They will need information whether it covers topics about life, news, multimedia, entertainment, language, web development, article writing, even online earning and other various topics. We are just the same with these people, even if we are no longer new comers, we still need information.

And that’s what the communities provide: the information exchange. That’s the reason of why we would always need the community.

Now just imagine you later enter the gate of a community. Just take one example, the online earning community; you have been there because you are just entering the online earning realm. You will soon find a melting pot of different nations who are also trying out their chance to get profits from their online experiences. There are many topics covered within the community site. You may find various discussions about online earning chance and how some Internet users have succeeded in making their earning from Internet; perhaps you will also find some way of earning online that never came into your mind back then. There might also be various information, perhaps about which programs that still exist online but actually have scammed a lot of people, or which programs that have really paid the participants, and so on.

Now, finally your eyes are opened by what you read from the community sites. Start from that moment, finally you have some guides about the online earning topic; you know which one really works and which one to avoid.

I know some of you, who have found such community sites, have decided to stay lurking and just reading the information shared by the sites. However, I believe that some others have also joined the communities and added new information that will be useful for everyone.

Whether you just want to lurk or to become active in such community sites, the communities still benefit for the people who come and read. However, what if you don’t find some information you need? Will you just go away from one site to another again and again until you find it, just because you don’t want to register or sign up for a participation?

Well, you can judge the effectiveness by yourself. However, I found a situation from my own experience from a community site that I trusted. I signed up, and then asked for the information from the other members there. And I found it was more effective because few minutes after I started the topic, some members already responded to my question and they came from various places of this world with various explanations and source of information I would need.

Some of the respondents had also provided several URLs that supported their information so I could survey the links on my own for further explanation. I would have taken longer time to find those things on my own. So this is about the power of community: the information exchange. This is the point I want to bring into your attention for now, I would like to add more about the benefits of joining a community, but I would reserve it for later.

However, you can also try it on your own. And you will soon realize that there are more benefits from joining a community that you trust. Believe me; the power of a community is no longer about the exclusive definition of the word “Community”. It is the powerful and fast information exchange between the members, and that’s what you and I will always need in this vast virtual world of Internet.