The 9gag community

Now we all have that thing that we like to look at on our phones when we are bored, or even need a pick up for the day, something that we just want to make us laugh or be intrigued, for example when we are in the hospital waiting room cause dad cut his finger off doing home maintenance to the back yard or even as simple as just as we're about to fall asleep at the end of a long and painful day. Some people use Facebook others use Tumblr and some even use Instagram those being the big three. But in reality the're many, many more websites and apps these days that do relatively the same thing. One of these sites is called 9Gag.

Now 9Gag started off as just a site that people could stream memes and ideas that they found funny and hoped that other people would too ( so your basic social media type system). But then as time went by 9Gag started getting more and more attention from people all over the world. The information superhighway in general is steeped in a language of liberation and Utopian possibility( S. Turkle 1995) and caught on this highway more and more people starded getting on board. So 9Gag started increasing their content to worldwide news feeds, comments sections and even created a 9Gag universal language made up of a love of potatoes a new measuring scale of bananas and a universal love for redheads.

Now why is 9Gag so different from the others or even the big three ( Tumblr, Facebook and Instagram) that is because we as 9Gaggers have made a community. A Community a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceives or is perceiving itself distinct in some respect from larger society which from within it exists ( Dictionary.com) . This community across the world has linked us together in a multicultural non-discriminating joy for they things we enjoy and hope others enjoy as well. This meaning, the texts, photos, and videos shared on the website have over time been grouped in different classes based on their similarities (A. Van Luyn, 2015). It is a space that we as a community have created slowly over time and a space that we now happily inhabit.

References

Sherry Turkle (1995) LIFE ON THE SCREEN IDENTITY ON THE AGE OF THE INTERNET, SIMON & SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS

Dictionary.com(2015), http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/community