Transhumanist community

The transhumanist community is loosely defined, often comprised of people involved or interested with a number of different transhumanist organisations, as well as parts of the wider emerging technology interest group, techno-optimists, longevity advocates, any of whom may or may not identify as a transhumanist.

Online transhumanist communities

Longevity-chan, created by and as a mascot for the life-extension advocacy community

Active chat forums can be found on:

The drawbacks of Facebook are that:

Some people prefer not to have a Facebook account, fearing that Facebook all too easily becomes a time sink
Facebook admin can decide to delete or suspend someone's account, sometimes for seemingly arbitrary reasons

The advantages of Facebook are that:

It undergoes rapid development, with new features being added regularly - therefore it is feature-rich
Facebook puts a high focus on good user experience
It is easier to check if a new applicant to join a group has a past online history elsewhere on Facebook which informs a decision whether to accept or reject them.

Advantages of Slack include:

(Info should be added about LinkedIn)

Significant organizations and groupings within the broad overall transhumanist community include the following:

The page Community building contains some tips and advice to help local transhumanist groups