A community is a gathering/ group of people who share a common interest in something. A virtual community is pretty much the same thing. It's like a club, where there are members who join and they meet up and share their information, new ideas, or just hang out. A virtual community is like a club. One excellent example of this is Facebook. If you want to be a Facebookian, you need to join and then you can do pretty much whatever you want on it. You could post pictures of yourself, look at other people's videos, or just chat to your friends and family. But within a Facebook community, there are even smaller communities. There could be a yoga community where people can go and check out the next yoga meetings or watch new yoga videos. It's kind of like joining one club to join another club. Or atleast that's what I think a community is.