Online communities as alternatives communities in geographic space are fragmenting and losing cohesion due to cultural and economic globalisation society is suffering increasingly from a condition of placelessness communities little more than geographically defined and administered land units which consist of atomised individuals who share little common historical consciousness or beliefs online communities offer an alternative and antidote to social alienation and placelessness experienced in geographic communities new forms of communities based upon our interests and affinity, rather than coincidence of location
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