VIRTUAL COMMUNITY AND REAL COMMUNITY

            In the article I have read entitle Virtual Community is Real Community. It is stated that Virtual Community is created, gathered, developed and sustained exclusively online. While Real Community is physical, exists outside the internet. It is shown in this article that these communities are interrelated with each other.

            Reflecting at the article, I would say Virtual Community exists with the help of the technology which is real. Moreover, its existence comes from the needs of the Real Community. That is to connect person who are far away from each other. These two communities are interconnected with each other in as much as the Real Community can be developed by the help of Virtual Community and vice versa.

With that, Virtual Community is paradoxical. It is real at the same time illusion. Real because it always involve real beings such as person, technology and others. Illusion simply because of its temporality.