Sharing is Caring

In the reading, What is Collaboration Anyway?, it made me ponder how different collaboration and sharing are. I used to see them as interchangeable, but I realized that is not the case. Often times the internet is seen as a way to share information and help connect people by using information. While similar concepts, online sharing barely scrapes the surface of collaboration. Collaboration helps users to feed off each others thoughts and constitute a chain of ideas, facts, or other information that was not published by one person. Collaboration creates more of a community that uses individuality to pool information. Don't get me wrong shared posts from individual users are very helpful in many circumstances but, after delving deeper, one can realize the potential that can be had because of the melting pot of ideas. For example, sites such as wikipedia pool information and people may add/edit information as they go to create the utmost accurate/descriptive information for each topic.

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