[gumby]

>> Very few of them actually have the organic bonds or genuine feeling of comraderie that real communities are supposed to have

> There is a tradeoff between freedom and community.

I think you misunderstood the comment. People who "like" a particular cat photo page likely don't think of themselves as being part of a _community_ but FB uses the term to try to con them.

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I'll cop to taking the topic off onto a tangent, although you can see FB's appropriation of the term 'community' (likewise 'friend', 'like') as indicative of the general cheapening of what these very important words and their meanings.