I am struggling with the definition of reality in some of the online community articles I have read. They seem to make a distinction between physical and virtual communities, sometimes pulling in "imagined communities" but fail to really discuss the perception of reality from the point of view from the individual. Maybe I'm completely missing something, and if I am please correct me or maybe point me in the direction of some articles, but isn't this a very important distinction to draw. Community in one sense is a perceived notion, possibly a perceived connectedness with others. So let's say my reality as an individual does not involve a high degree of face-to-face contact, then I must have on some level a constructed perception of my community - something which dictates my behavior within and around those community activities...to a certain degree wouldn't the same apply for online communities? Maybe I'm digging to deep within the individual to gain a clear perspective... Steve