Let's talk about Community. No not the show. Actual communities. One of the questions asked if it better to be apart of a large group/community or a small group/community?
My personal experience has been that you make more friendships and connections in a small community versus a large one. At BYU I have made the most friends in my classes with only about 20 other students. You get the chance to meet everyone and work with them. However, when I took American Heritage and sat in a lecture hall of 600 people I surprisingly never made a single connection. You would think that there are so many more possible connections that one should make at least one connection. However with such a big community, you never saw the same person twice. No one knew anyone and the result was no one talked. There were never any conversations to join. However, in the smaller classes I saw the same people everyday. From the very beginning the class built a community of friends. I always had someone to get notes from or work on a project with.
I lived in a very small community in high school. We always had parades for the 4th of July. The whole town would come together. I knew every house in the town I lived in. Even though our town was located in a very populated area the community was very small and close. Not only was it fun, but our community looked out for everyone even though it was not what you would call a small town. I think that small communities are better and give us more connections and make us feel more apart of something.
Very good article. Also, don't you think that you can kinda have the "small and large community fill" all together through some social media platforms? Think about Facebook, you have the large community which is all the members of facebook in the platform, but then you can have a smaller community in the people who are "your friends" or even a smaller community in like a "facebook page" or a "group". This is a pretty cool area to capitalize on by Zuckerberg and his team.
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