Ever since I discovered the internet I’ve been fascinated by the communities that have sprung up as a result of the internet.
When I was at uni in 1995/95 the idea of web or online communities was pretty new but I looked into it in the form of a Usenet group. It was a mini research project, for assessment, of mine.
Now there’s heaps more online communities and groups around. Weblogs is an obvious choice and I’d say that most, if not all, webloggers read others weblogs and participate in them in some way and get to know the weblog authors and therefore form their own communities.
There are another online types of communities around too, and that’s Flickr groups. Anyone can create a group that’s public or private and post pictures to it. Being a community, you can be invited to the group or you can just join depending on how the group has been setup.
What caught my interest was the Graves, tombs and cemeteries group. I’m not morbidly fascinated by death, but it interests me to look at gravestones, particularly old ones and try to figure out or imagine the story behind it. While I haven’t posted anything to this group 16,432 photos are there already from just over 2,500 members.
Some other Flickr groups:
I know what you mean. I think I first read you on the Blogs for Women blogroll, and then Joy of Six had you linked, too, and it’s kinda nice to find that sometimes when you go to another place, that someone is there also. You know what I mean.
Cemetaries are awesome. And peaceful. When I was an art student, it was one of my favorite places to go draw, as there was one right across from the Fine Arts Building. The contrast, the statuary, the silence….I’ve never found it spooky or scary at all.
Over at Ronni Barrett’s, you said, “I know deep down I’ll never be on the A-list and that doesn’t bother me but it would be nice to be recognised amongst a community of bloggers, whichever community that is.
It’s happening for me slowly but surely and I love it when someone bothers to comment on my blog.”
So I thought I’d come over and comment.
Ronni Bennett. I have some sort of name recall dysfunction — I write my friend Suzanne’s name as Suzette most of the time.