While the idea of communicating with others is nothing new to the people of the Nacirema the ease by which the Koobecaf allows communication is amazing. Koobecaf lets people put there personality onto a web page for others to see then allows others to either become friends and engage in dialogue or search for others. Besides being a medium for people to meet other people it has become a place of business, a political soap box, an advertising platform, and a form of entertainment with a variety of games.
Think of the Koobecaf as your digital persona, you are able to search through your network and find other people that share similar interests by what they have on there profile. Most of the time the friends that you already have in your offline life make up a bulk of your friends list, yet another way that your group of friends can communicate and share themselves. Koobecaf’s development took the internet which was a wide open expanse of user content and personalized it through giving the people in front of the computer a face that people could talk back to.
The Koobecaf is classified as a social networking site which is just another way to say online community. People living in the Nacirema and abroad by joining the Koobecaf are apart of this community. How people use the community is entirely up to them, they can use it for its intended purpose of meeting new people and maintaining relationships with friends. Through the market place the Koobecaf can allow users to sell or by items from anyone in the community. By customizing your personal page with thoughts about different events and topics, or even showing your preference for a particular political candidate by adding there button to your pieces of flair. Joining groups in the Koobecaf community is a great way to become active in supporting a specific cause and meet other like minded individuals. With the activities that one person can become involved in while they spend time in the Koobecaf it resembles a real community that one might experience in your offline life.
With this new multi cultural community available to anyone who wants to join the Koobecaf we are able to experience parts of culture that people from certain areas of the world might not ever experience without meeting some of the people that they have met in the Koobecaf community. By adding this accessibility to all of this cultural information it has changed our lives by allowing use to participate in a community that is much bigger than any we could be apart of in our daily offline lives.
Previous communications technologies allowed people to talk to others but never had the ability to find others. Think a bout the cell phone, you can take it anywhere and still be accessible yet if a person wants to reach you they have to know your number or they can’t reach you. Email has the same limitations and while you are still using the internet to communicate with people you still require there address or your message cannot be sent. With the seemingly endless database of people that are online with Koobecaf you only need to find the persons name to communicate with them.