(source: myspace)
Blogging community is where a group of people that are brought together due to the commonalities that are shared among each other on a particular subject on the internet. (Owyang, 2007).
In regards to this, there are many types of blogging communities such as the gadgets blog, beauty forums, and more. It is uncountable as they are everywhere on the internet. In other words, blogging communities come in all forms and it is depending on the interest developed within the internet users. Malaysianbabes.net is a indeed undeniably helpful forum to most women who are conscious towards their appearance as it provides all sorts of information from beauty, diets to relationship.
Therefore, this particular forum can be identified as boundaried communities whereby it is a collection of blog that gathers information of a particular topic and blog readers are the host of the platform (White, 2006). One is required to become a member of the forum. In this way, members are able to obtain more information and to express their thoughts and comment on certain posts. For example, members can somewhat get better information by clicking on the link that is posted up. Thus the form of community leads to a better community building among the users. This theory applied when the power of boundaried communities is practiced by the frequency of posting, popularity in terms of quantity of comment given by others. And lastly, the social networking tools such as Facebook that can be connected with it help in visualize relationship between the blogger and the follower (White, 2006).
References:
- Owyang, J 2007, Defining the term: Online Community, viewed on 16th April 2010, <http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/12/28/defining-the-term-community/>
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