Can we call Kakao Talk as community?
Community is a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common
characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society
within which it exists(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/community).
SNS is a service that supports building and networking contacts and social
relationships online everyday by sharing interests and communicating (http://www.happycampus.com/doc/11606262).
I am going to introduce ‘Kakao Talk’ that is one of
the most famous SNS in Korea. This web is a global free mobile message service
that started from 2010 Anyone who has a telephone number can do chatting and
exchange pictures, video and things like that without enrolling in and logging
in the web. If KakaoTalk users install the app on their smartphone, Kakao Talk recommend
the person who is registered in their phone book or other person’s phone book as
‘ Friends’. Moreover, it is automatically registered as ‘friends’, if each
other's number is registered on the phone book of both sides. Most of the
Korean young people prefer using this web to using Facebook unlike other
countries because the web is convenient to use and has various functions. Unlike
a text message, many people can do chatting simultaneously by it. Moreover, it
enables people to make a call to domestic or foreign friends for nothing as
long as wifi works. Although I live in America nowadays, I can actually talk with
my friends who lives in Korea all day free of charge by the web. Besides, It
gives various services such as games and story recently.
I think that Kakao Talk is online community
because it enables me to have a social relationship with my friends by sharing
information and feeling and communicating. This is consistent with the
definition of a community.
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