Computer networks now facilitate innovative forms of communication in new types of social environments in which people can meet, work, learn, and play without ever seeing each other in the physical world. These types of interactions have provided a platform on which forms of virtual communities are being established. Computer-Mediated-Communications (CMCs) are clearly changing the way we live our lives, but the direction of change is still uncertain.
Online communities are a by-product of technology that is influencing the way people socialize. This concept has created a realm in which everybody can gather and meet in a specified domain, no matter what their identity or geographical position may be. It provides an easily accessible option for those who wish to interact with others who share similar interests, but are located very far from them.
The subsequent anonymity which is applied to internet communications appears to provide a non discriminatory, non biased atmosphere in which people may freely communicate with one another without any preconceived notions which may not easily be suppressed during interactions in the physical world.
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