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If you feel lonely even though you have a large social network, perhaps it is time to engage in physical activities. Having 1000 friends on Facebook does not matter if you do not have a solid group of people who are supportive and caring for you in person.

When did you stop using a physical encyclopedia or newspaper and turn to Wikipedia instead?

It’s important to know how food affects your body, and it’s also important to know how technology affects the world around us. The internet has changed our lives in many ways, including how we communicate with one another. Clay Shirky discusses these changes in his book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.

In this passage, you will learn how bloggers can make powerful people like politicians resign from their posts. You’ll also discover that someone with a PhD in photography is as good at capturing events as someone who uses an iPhone camera. Furthermore, you’ll learn about the power of social media when one woman’s lost phone attracted over 1 million people to look for it. Finally, you’ll see how Facebook users are not content with just socializing on Facebook and instead want to get involved in online communities so they can share ideas and help each other out.

Big Idea #1: The internet allows us to form groups quickly and efficiently.

The internet has changed the way we interact with each other.

The way we communicate has changed significantly. Instead of calling each friend individually, we can send a group message on Facebook and watch the plans fall into place. But when you think about how the internet has influenced our cause-related communication, it’s remarkable.

For example, take the story of a girl named Ivanna who lost her phone in 2006. A girl named Sasha found it and refused to give it back. Luckily, Evan created a website that went viral and eventually attracted over one million viewers. The website also caught the attention of professionals such as lawyers and police officers.

In the past, it would have been very difficult to assemble a group of people from different fields. However, now it’s possible and costs less money than in previous years.

Big Idea #2: Digital platforms have made it easier to share and cooperate on a global scale.

In order to be effective, a group needs to share and cooperate. The internet has made these two activities much easier than before.

Digital platforms that allow sharing have given us the ability to share our ideas and thoughts on a scale we’ve never experienced before. For example, if you upload pictures to Flickr, you can make them public or private. If they’re public, anyone who wants to see your portfolio can do so immediately from around the world. Imagine how much time and money it would take just a few years ago!

Sharing is a simple concept. You just do what you want to do. However, cooperation takes more effort because you have to adjust your behavior in order to work with others and vice versa.

The simplest form of cooperation is conversation. By having a conversation with someone, you and that person are cooperating to share information.

Conversations have become easier with new technologies. We can now communicate a single message to a group without being physically present in the group, making it easy for us to send emails and text messages (also known as “group texts”).

Twenty years ago, if you wanted to communicate with a group of people who weren’t in the same place as you, it would have been difficult. You’d have had to make copies of your message and mail them out individually or spend money on fax machines.