Social Media Killing Communities?

http://www.lesarchivistes.net/did-social-media-kill-communities-the-usguys-case-study-and-the-criticism-of-the-facebook-like/

Social media is killing communites? Here is some information to support or not support this statement.

From the start, hastags were used for organising information. And so, it started to organise communites online and spiltting them up. Now, we can understand where all the gender, racial and cultural difference problems come from.

Why hashtags why...



The article by Neil, I crossed online, describes how hastags on twitter can be mixed up in definition and can separate different genders, cultures and races. The statement of social media is killing communities is both right and wrong. Social media is killing old mixed communites and creating new separate communites. Today there are way more communites than there were a few hundred years ago. The article was written in such a way that it is taken in as an appraisal of the #usguys. Which some people do not like, as seen in the comments:








You may say that this comment is correct (I think it is), but in a neutral sense, it is both right and wrong. If you understand me, thats great, if not let me try to explain in an easier way.

 If you look at a tube from your perspective, you'll see one hole, right? This could be the yes side. But a tube in general always has two sides, a yes and a no.

Ik that isn't the best way to explain it but I think it works and hopefully you understand

This article also looked at facebook and its option of liking posts, pages and people. It explains how a person liking something may seem like he benefitted from it or really likes it. But it may be that he didnt benefit from it or doesnt like it. Maybe he/she liked it to just recognize it.

I belive this author was trying to get attention of social media users and let them know to not get sucked into the community separation occuring on the internet. The criticism on facebook was used to support his statement that social media is killing communities.

What do you think? Is social media killing communities? Would you say that separating communites is killing them?