Summary of "Online Communities Bind People with Common Interests"
- South Korea's community culture has been facilitated by the internet and mobile platforms
- The online community era emerging in 1990's blossomed as portal gates
- The biggest portal site service hosted 9.05 million online communities in 2012
- To encourage participation, the portals offer support funds and souvenirs for online communities helding real-life gathering
- A professor at Kyung Hee Cyber University stated that internet had produced a new group creating synergy trough online and offline meeting within communities
- Choi Min-Su, the operator of Never Community Music, said that the online communities had enabled users to interact with each other easily
- They do many activities together such as: discussing songs to play, sharing music videos, and posting housekeeping notes
- Communities of local portals are different from those of social networking services such as: Twitter and Facebook
- Pro Min said that SNS communities were built after the people had known each other. For instance, Shin Sae - Mi said that automobile club was launched after some car fanatics chatted via twitter, then it become bigger. Finally automobile specialized media and officials from car industry join the club
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