Yes, the group strongly believes that communities such as facebook and youtube mediates and shapes social relationships. People are able to develop stronger bonds through social gaming, shared interests, and interactions through comments. Furthermore, it is truly evident that some if not most of the people behave differently in the virtual world compared to the real world. Due to the absence of different factors such as facial cues, people can act differently either in a positive way or in a negative way. This claim shows that indeed social networking communities do shape relationships. A very good example of this are the shy people. With this, shy people are capable of molding better relationships with other people which they are not capable of doing in the real world.
What are the impacts of participating cultures? What are its danger?
Definitely, these social networking communities have graved their impacts to mankind. Millions and millions of people all over the globe are participating to this phenomenon. For the group, one of the major impacts is dissimination of information. With such technological advancement, information is easily broadcasted by anyone, anywhere and anytime. The field of entertainment is no exception to this claim. As seen in the video, youtube personalities have grown to fame due to the site's ability to broadcast videos to people. There are even some people who uses YouTube to earn money amounting to 6 figure pay. Although these types of communities have tons of positive benefits, there are still dangers and risks to this communities such as the loss of privacy.
Does the generation still yearn for stronger community?
Absolutely, the various social networks existing today enables people to look for new ways to improve different activities in social network sites. Multiply, for instance, a social network site that enables people to share their pictures, videos, songs, notes, blogs and the like, has now transformed into a business center. Having business in a social network community can really make things easier for the people especially first time entrepreneurs. Benefits such as free advertising of products really emerges in e-commerce. One will no longer have any problems advertising his/ her products because in social network sites, one already has hundreds of exitisting social connections. Aside from having connections, the things that one posted can also be shared by other users to their friends. This just mean that the products of what one is selling can be seen by millions of users around the globe. And this transformation is just part of the yearning of the generation of having a stronger community.
