Community is a group of interacting organisms sharing a populated environment. Traditionally a "community" has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location.
The words often used to refer to a group that is organized around common values.
Online community is a virtual community that exists online whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content.
As complex as online communities seem we are all part of one or more of these communities. The biggest online communities that we are part of are social networking sites.
Facebook is one of the biggest social networks and each individual creates his/her own community by adding friends, as well as being a part of over 200 million thousand users.
Same goes for college websites like moodle; it creates a community within the college studying certain modules and allows the student to upload or download content and talk on forums.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_community
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