Vanessa mentioned that the topics are open-ended and can be related to interests, so I thought I would go in a different, personal direction for the selection of the communities I will observe for the community assignment.
My husband and I are trying to build a real estate investing (REI) business on the side; we have one Rental property and would like to get a few more. I have found the community Bigger Pockets which has tools and information in blog posts and ebooks and a very active forum with community members. Since this is an area of interest for us, I will participate in this community for this course assignment but also for our own knowledge because it may help us with our future plans. I also found a reddit community for real estate investing. I decided to follow that one as well. As much time as I spend interacting with others on the web I haven’t participated in Reddit communities although I have heard much about them (most of it negative and hate-based during the last presidential community along with a similar and seemingly darker community, 4chan, so I haven’t had the desire to go there.) I would like to see what they are all about and possibly turn the negative way I see that entire community by viewing something useful there. Having previously been the victim of online bullying in a Facebook group and being involved in the hostile take over and getting back of that group, I have no desire to put myself back in a situation of being targeted by trolls and cyberbullies so this will be the community that I will lurk in. It should be interesting to see the difference between the way these two communities function, the kind of information that is shared, the strengths and weaknesses of these for promoting learning and performance and the necessary factors for creating and sustaining these online communities.
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Vanessa
7/3/2017 11:22:53 am
Ugh -- I'm so sorry that you've had to deal with trolls/cyberbullies. I fear that sometimes the web amplifies natural human behaviors to an utterly obnoxious point.
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