Major advancements and the use of technology in modern societies have provided people with new ways of life that play a substantial role in influencing and improving people’s relationships, communications, and, most importantly, understanding of each other. However, online communities have some challenges that call for people’s need to focus on measures and strategies that make them stronger and reliable.
One way to make online communities stronger involves focusing on some of the challenges affecting these communities to provide reliable and effective solutions (Ihl et al. 2020). The primary goal, in this case, is to solve common issues affecting people in consideration of the use of online communities, thus improving how people relate and understand each other.
Besides, it is also important to develop more rules and measures to control how people use these online communities. This case will help ensure people avoid possible negative impacts and behaviors that contribute to weak online communities (Mojdeh et al. 2018).
It is also important to focus on motivating and reinforcing online community users to focus on specific positive and desired behaviors in these communities. This case can involve celebrating positive outcomes related to the use and dependence of these communities. As a result, it will help to influence positive contributions from people in building strong and reliable online communities.
Although building online communities may seem easy, it will depend on the contribution and participation of different people, organizations, and societies in general (Ihl et al. 2020). Logically, this might be challenging because it may be difficult to influence all people to focus on using such strategies. As a result, more studies are needed to improve the general understanding of essential and reliable strategies to influence people’s understanding of their role in building such communities.
References
Ihl, A., Strunk, K. S., & Fiedler, M. (2020). The mediated effects of social support in professional online communities on crowdworker engagement in micro-task crowdworking. Computers in Human Behavior, 113, 106482.
Mojdeh, S., Head, M., & El Shamy, N. (2018). Knowledge sharing in social networking sites: how context impacts individuals’ social and intrinsic motivation to contribute in online communities. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 10(2), 82-104.
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