Hi everyone! My name is Parker and I live in New York City however when I first started geochaching unofficially around 10 years ago I was back in the DC- Maryland area. I was introduced to the world of geocaching via a family friend and in the area I grew up there are a lot of parks and small wooded areas that had pretty large geocaches to find and were always such an adventure for a 11 year old kid to partake in. I'm not as active as I used to when I first started, but I still occasionally hunt for geocaches are the city, though usually much more microscopic than the ones I used to find.
I wanted to introduce myself to the group because I've always been fascinated and super interested by Geocaching and its community. As a small familiar member of this great community, I wanted to ask for permission to observe how you all interact via these forums for a case study for a class I am taking at New York University. The point of the case study is to observe how a particular online community interacts and analyze what you learn from the community based on their language and how they interact. I thought Geocaching would be the perfect community since I am part of it and familiar with the terminology and concepts of the world/community. Of course, nothing personal will be used in this assignment and no screen names will be published. I would love to observe this community that I am so interested in and fond of and I hope you all will allow me to do so. Thank you all for your time
