Collaboration on Social Media

Being on the web is something that everyone eventually knows how to navigate. There are many different reasons why people are on the web. Those reasons could be that someone is trying to find information about a disaster that happened, they are trying to connect with their friends and family, or they could just be surfing the web and not looking for anything in particular. Collaborating on the web can be seen as different things but the main things that are considered as collaborating on the web are liking, commenting, tagging, and even posting a blog. That is also known as being a part of the web’s collective intelligence.

When collaborating or being apart of the web we tend to gravitate to a group. Those groups could be made up of friends or strangers that we have befriended. Within these communities they have come together for many different reasons, that could be that they wanted to put information out about a certain topic. They also could’ve gotten together because they all like something, like a show, movies even anime. Within these communities they put out a lot of information regarding their topic of interest. These communities tend to help people understand a specific topic of interest. They then can use that information for their assignments or when they want to converse about the topic.

From the readings we were assigned to read it is interesting how the first language was gossip. It’s noteworthy how about 60% of the time we are conversating it is gossip. That gossip is usually about personal relationships and experiences. From the studies that were done, it was fascinating to learn that there is a cognitive limit to how many individual relationships that one person can maintain and ensure that they are stable. I find it interesting how we can only maintain a small group of stable relationships. However, it does make sense because it takes a lot of effort to ensure that everyone is ok and sometimes it hard when they don’t want to talk things out.