Social networks are the most popular and fastest growing industry in the modern Internet. Tens of millions of users have an account in at least one of the popular networks, or even several at once. They are convenient not only for personal communication, but also for bringing people together in any common interests or areas of activity. There are many ideas for creating different associations every day. How to collect at least a few people, if you come up with any interesting idea? Of course, you can’t create a social network from scratch, but you can take advantage of existing networks and create an online community within them — a group of users united for some reason.
The ability to create a community of online users has long been in all social networks. Their number reaches several million. The main factor in their growth is pure diversity. After all, each person has several interests, and therefore he can simultaneously be a member of several groups. Rare users regularly review the list of communities they are a member of and remove unnecessary ones. Many, on the contrary, agree to all proposals and therefore can immediately be in several tens, hundreds or even thousands of communities. Another factor that influenced the huge number of groups on social networks is that community creation is accessible to all users and is not limited by the number.
Creating a community is very easy in popular social services. Consider the creation of a group on the example of the social network "VKontakte". On the “My Groups” tab of the left menu, a complete list of all the communities the user is a member of is displayed. In the upper right corner is the link "Create a community." In the menu that opens, you must select one of three options. A group is a standard form of community with one or more administrators. A year or two ago, groups were the only species of community. They are great for uniting people with common interests, convenient for discussing some topics or expressing their opinions.
The public page is the second option for communities. They are gaining more and more popularity recently. This type of page is suitable both for famous personalities and for the promotion of shops and enterprises. They are ideal for publishing various news. Public pages differ from groups in that they do not need to join, but subscribe. In addition, they do not create topics, but simply post news on the wall. Creating a public page community is very fast.
"Meetings" until recently were presented in a separate section, and they could be viewed on the calendar. Now it is also a category of associations. Creating a community of this type is best suited to inform users about any upcoming event (concert, rally, meeting, flash mob). They will also help determine the approximate number of guests who will be present.