Eh, my mother would tell me to stop looking at my belly button and go do something useful!
Likewise, I don't see a need to post in a newsgroup to interact with people who you met there and share common interests with.
Agreed, but do you automatically feel there is still a community connecting you with such people? Or does the community become irrelevant at some point and the people become friends?
Is a political party a community? Why? Just because everyone who belongs agrees they belong? Is a community just a common name or interest? Is anything else implied? You say you have a strong connection to US Marines. What does that connection entail for you and why?
Re: expressing my inner two year old
Likewise, I don't see a need to post in a newsgroup to interact with people who you met there and share common interests with.
Agreed, but do you automatically feel there is still a community connecting you with such people? Or does the community become irrelevant at some point and the people become friends?
Is a political party a community? Why? Just because everyone who belongs agrees they belong? Is a community just a common name or interest? Is anything else implied? You say you have a strong connection to US Marines. What does that connection entail for you and why?