Online communities
NEW YORK - Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you'll have to rebuild your profile from scratch.
Ref. https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_...line_data_walls
Wow, on the list of bad ideas this is rather high. All of the security risks aside, this would serve to make life easier for cons and scripters. To think, one could place an ad in a profile and it will filter through to several networks.
No mention of the chans, what is reporting coming to.
Well we are on a good online community right now. Communities have their place but I do not make it the center of my browsing experience. I'm actually a member of many social networks with here being one of many that I check on now and again. I think some people become too engrossed in it and then they forget the rest of the world wide web out there or even real life.
I join in some communities to enjoy opinions of others from around the world or in my particular fields. It is good to have a place to go to talk shop or just to gab. Sometimes the distance that separate people makes it hard to talk shop. Having a place on line brings everyone together in a common loop to get good ideas. Besides I do not post my real name on any community board.