Maybe it’s just a terminology thing, but community doesn’t seem to adequately define many online social groupings, networks, and identities anymore. Are all the people who follow Barack Obama on Twitter really a community? What about the people who like the NYTimes on Facebook? Community had (and still has) it’s place in the evolution of our digital environment, but in many cases we have outgrown its scope. Just as community doesn’t refer to every group identity of humans in the real world, so it shouldn’t in the digital one. So, what’s the next stage?
