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virtual community
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virtual community

A group of individuals who share a common interest via e-mail, blogs, instant messages, chat rooms or newsgroups. Members of a virtual community are self-subscribing. Contrast with virtual workgroup. See social networking site.



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Prizes include a round-the-world trip sponsored by Members Equity and Member Connect or a computer donated by Virtual Communities.
But it compensates, they argue, by creating new forms of social contact -- e-mail, for example, and those virtual communities extolled so lavishly in magazines like Wired.
Those of us who go online often think of virtual communities as Internet discussion areas where people exchange information and opinions about popular TV shows or movies or any other subject we can imagine.
 
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