This document discusses virtual communities as online communities where people can join together and potentially change the world by making friendships and relationships, though there is uncertainty around peoples' real identities since virtual communities exist as abstract shadows that are becoming real.

1. HOW REAL IS VIRTUAL COMMUNITY??

2. VIRTUAL COMMUNITY = ONLINE COMMUNITY

3. WHERE PEOPLE COME AND JOIN INTO ONE BIG COMMUNITY

4. CAN CHANGE THE WOLRD

5. Make a friendship

6. Make a relationship

7. WE DON’T KNOW WHO REALLY THEY ARE

8. VIRTUAL COMMUNITY LIKE A SHADOWS

9. BECOMING REAL

10. VIRTUAL COMMUNITY IS ABSTRACT

11. WHO CARES??