The turn from television to online streaming is creating a social scene that resembles a giant living room with a hundred-thousand people watching the same movie. From You Tube to Vimeo to Hulu, to Netflix. Social Media covers a broad spectrum of viewing platforms, and the impact of community is the same no matter [...]

1. Start a Blog, and update it daily if possible.
Starting a blog is the best way to begin building your online community. Setting up a blog can be as easy as signing up for a free account at www.wordpress.com; and if you want, for around 7 dollars you can buy a personal domain through a [...]

The Leaves of Fate are Changing;
An old way is now senescing, giving up the ghost, and making way for next year’s new growth. We tasted the crop from the old growth, and it was good, but a lingering desire to taste the new came at the moment the last fruit dropped. Temperate nights [...]

10. You become part of a large community of like-minded people, that all share a common interest.
9. Conversations are bound to happen, and you don’t really want to piss the wrong person off.
8. Anytime you like someones opinion, or enjoy something they said, you can ask them to be your friend.
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Social Media is a term that has been used way too much, yet way too few actually know what it means. Social Media is not a metaphor for Twitter, or even Facebook, it is a term that works best as a simile for community, as in ’social media is like one big stadium of [...]