The Virtual Community

The author suggest that the computer-based communication has introduced a new form of human social life call 'virtual communities', a group of the people link with each other because they have the same topic and their participation in computer networks.

People in virtual communities use words on screens to exchange their own opinion, ideas and argue, engage in different issues.  Also they can share their own experience, share their emotion, find friends, create a forum to communicate. People in virtual communities just doing what the normal people do in real life but they leave their body behind.

Actually, i think the virtual community can help kind of the person increase their confident, communication skill and problem solving skill. There are some types of person, which are talkative, enthusiasm, sociable, but some are speechless, embarrass to talk with strangers, virtual community is a way to let them express their feeling and make some new friends on the internet.