The rise of virtual communities

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new kinds of communities

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emerged but the experience had become

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individual even solitary the sense of

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community felt real but it was

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virtual and then everything changed

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and it changed

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forever everything came to us in a

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device that could fit into our pocket we

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went back out into the world we listened

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to what we loved when we liked we played

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when we wanted where we chose we shared

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what inspired us with everyone we cared

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about we carried our sense of purpose

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with us we discovered new people and

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places and experiences and our sense of

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purpose kept

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growing it was the end of something

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it was the beginning of

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everything welcome to the fourth screen