A
while back in my high school years, there was this app named Kik. It originally
was a texting app, where you would signup to create a username and you could chat
with friends or strangers. Within a
couple of years and updates, they added the feature to find and create groups. In
the groups' section, you would type in keywords like “car” and it would list
all the chats/ groups created about cars. Anyone could create a chat room that would
host up to 100 people. Typically, the chats with most people would be the most
popular and would show first at the top as it had the most amount of active user.
The ones that had fewer people typically were not as active or people would generally
be actively participating at certain times, depending on where they lived. I personally
joined different types of groups ranging from a specific make and model of car to something
more general like art or music. What really made this community special was when
you had a good majority of people active, chatting, and interacting at the same time. In my
opinion, Kik groups made me feel as if I was talking to other people in real
life as communication was instant in the chats. Compare to other communities, forums,
or groups, they lack that instant feedback as sometimes you must refresh the page
or people post and go do something else. Furthermore, I personally would consider
Kik Groups a community, others might not since Kik is a primly texting app,
but the fact that there are different groups ranging from cars, arts, music, makeup, particular countries, and more, I think it makes it a community as to any other but
in a different platform.
-Benjamin C. 9/26/2020
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