Social Networks are very in right now, everybody is LinkedIn, belong to a Google group or just plainly write in a forum online. However social networks are nothing new, people from all over the world have for a long met and interacted in forums face-to-face, and more-and-more do. A flight tickets cost less and less and we travel like we’ve never traveled before.
However the tools to interact and the way we interact online are changing, this IS a global community today, no way around that.
The virtual networks of the web are often starting points to or the extention of real life relationships, more than we might relize, but it it also a great way to meet likeminded people. We humans are social animals (most of us) and we need people around us.
The more we network the more we are able to spread our thoughts and ideas as well as get
critical feedback on them. Doing together increases the chance of getting new solutions to old problems.