Community Website Features

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A community Web site according to J.Hage III and A.G. Amstrong should target on some interest that is appealing to a sufficient number of people, allow the members to make meaningful relationships with each other, should give an option of fantasy and entertainment and support transactions that allow members to purchase or exchange things. A community website is an example for a virtual community as it creates a non-physical environment of communication between the members. A virtual community will be a success when it accomplishes all the purposes with which it is designed.
A virtual community agree with some aspects common with all types of communities. The community website should be powerful enough and it should create a feeling in the participator that he or she is part of a social process, when he/she is engaged in the website. An active community website always will have a chain relation existing between the participators. The site will help the participators share valuable information with each other. Relations amid participators progress in such a way that in time there will be a shared history between them. On the other hand, if the main focus of the community is to enrich personally and exploit the members, it will be have a short-term life.