Culture & Society

How Online Groups Are Changing Our Street

A speaker discusses how online groups are changing the way neighbours communicate.

B29 min

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1Social media has quietly changed the way neighbours talk to each other.

2In the past, people shared news over fences or at the corner shop.

3Today, most local news travels quickly through online groups and phone applications.

4Our street has an online group with more than two hundred members.

5Someone lost a dog last week and found it within two hours.

6That kind of help would have been much slower twenty years ago.

7However, online talk cannot fully replace a warm face to face conversation.

8Some elderly residents feel left out because they rarely use smartphones at all.

9We now print the group news and deliver it to them every week.

10Technology works best when it brings people together in real life situations.

11The healthiest communities, I believe, will mix the old and the new.

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