The men chronicle their progress in journals and talk about it in discussion groups.
Clinicians can also share medical knowledge and participate in discussion groups with colleagues online.
We send out résumés, we search online, we seek people out, we meet in discussion groups.
Gibson spent much of the next year in Laos, helping friends set up a karaoke bar, but maintained an active interest in the search in discussion groups on Facebook.
He continues to participate in discussion groups, and though he does not drink, he says he fights behavior that is common to recovering alcoholics, like overreacting to events.
Pantaleimon, an ecumenically minded Orthodox priest in Russia's westernmost province, Kaliningrad, has church offices bustling with young people involved in discussion groups and social events.
Now he is among the survivors sharing their memories with young Indonesians in discussion groups organized by universities and nongovernmental organizations.
For example, in discussion groups on the Google search engine that mention Iraq, the French are three times as likely to be described as "the frogs" as the Germans are to be described as "the krauts".
Tierney's son Brendan, who had been maligned in discussion groups on the Internet for being too small and too slow to play major college lacrosse and for capitalizing on his family connection at Princeton, had won the game.
"In discussion groups, we found people saying, 'We're marginalized anyway; what difference does it make if we vote?' " said Stephen Rule, the manager of public opinion surveys for the research council.
