What makes a community?

A community is a group of people in a common place with similar admirations, there are lots of different mediums in which a community can take place. From an actual physical community like UW Tacoma Students with a common admiration of UW and getting an education, to an online community such as facebook. In my opinion being a community is being around people who have similar goals, ideals and aspirations as I do. Friends, family, peers and acquaintances can all be participants in our communities; everyone has different ideas of what it may take to create a community and that's okay. Having different ideas presents new and exciting ways to look at things. You don't have to belong to just one community either, people can belong to many different communities and they all add something different to the member of the communities. I think that the idea of a community is changing with the increase in technology and media but that could be a good or bad thing; we shall see as it goes.