In real life (IRL) chatrooms and messenger services have gradually become a popular choice of communicating. Its sychronous and can allow many people at a time to communicate or one on one communication. You talk to people from across the world, disregarding the possible differences in timezones. This brings up the ideology of Benedict Anderson, who spoke of 'imagined communities' (1991: 1), different from an actual community because it is not (and cannot be) based on face-to-face interaction between its members. Instead, members hold in their minds a mental image. Members of the community probably will never know one another face to face, however they can have similar interests. 'MSN'; which is an example of a messenger service, has allowed me to talk to a friend in Australia, i have many interests with them but might never know whats real, an 'imagined community'.
Anderson, B (1991) Imagined Communities; published by Versa
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