Virtually Here

So, we’ve reached the point in time when the internet started to mature and it was common for people to be ‘on-line’.

Social Networks flourished. At this time mostly in shape of chat rooms and instant messenger tools because remember that many of the accessories that make virtual networking so seemless today were not fully there yet (cell phones, digital cameras, smart phones/PDA’s, etc). As the internet ‘matured’ more and more people ‘moved’ parts of their life on-line simply by having to be connected for work or school. As such it became second-nature to start doing your errands on line (on-line banking, grocery shopping and personal emails just to mention a few). This also called for another shift in user-base. Back in the gloomy computer rooms, connected to a mainframe, and in the BBS world, you would mostly only find people that could easily be classified as ‘geeks’. Now, everyone was connected and the kind of interaction that people sought online changed along with that.

Join me on this blog as we reach ‘today’ with all that the internet has to offer in terms of Virtual Social Networks and discover some communities or ways of interaction that may surprise you.

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