Groups come in all shapes and sizes.  Inanimate objects sometimes are grouped.  Animals sometimes are grouped.  People sometimes are grouped. Grouping is the basis for many sciences including math, biology, medicine, physics, and others.  Actually, grouping is so common, we often don't realize we are doing it. 

Grouping is the basis for comraderie, but also for prejudice.  Grouping can bring people together around a common good, but also separate them as a result of stereotype.  Grouping can strengthen and sometimes weaken.

Active Rain Groups hopefully fall in the category of building comraderie, creating a common good, and strengthening.  Have you checked the Active Rain groups?  I did today for the first time in months.  At this posting there are 1,907 different groups on Active Rain.  Seventy-seven pages of groups.  There are a few that appear to be duplicates in their focus, but almost 2000 groups is amazing.  

If you haven't scrolled through the pages of groups to see if you identify with a group's focus, you might want to take a few hours to do so.  Some of the names that caught my eye were the following: 

• REALTORS®   - Is it a surprise that this is the group with the most subscribers:  4,253 at this writing!
• Active Rain Newbies - Everyone has to start somewhere.  You might even find members of the 100,000 points club in this group.  Afterall, 100,000 points starts with just 25 for a comment or 200 for a post!
• Stage It Forward - There are tons of staging groups but this one caught my eye only because Craig Schiller is sooooo beautiful! 
• Listings by Address - Another marketing tool, maybe?
• Meme's - How I dread meme's, however, they're a great tool for getting to know one another.
• Millionaire Real Estate Agent Book Club - Oh, my.  I still haven't drank the kool-aid or finished the book.  What I have read is helpful, but I never dreamed of a whole club on the topic!  Besides I can't even spell millionaire without thinking hard!
  
• Point 2 Agent Sites - I've got two but didn't realize Active Rain had a group for them!
• Carnival of Content - I've never entered a carnival of my own free will.  Only when Teresa made me!
  

The list is groups that struck me in just the first few pages when sorted by number of subscribers.  Imagine what awaits deeper inside.  There were groups with brokerage names, focus on marketing, investing, house flipping, thinking out of the box, spiritual groups, encouragement, comedy, sexual orientation, bad things agents experience, etc.  It's a whole new world out there.   Plus, if you choose, you can sign up for the RSS feed for the group of your choice and  not have to sort through all the other posts to find the ones of interest.