Introduction Virtual communities represent a unique communication environment with its own rules and principles located in cyberspace. Virtual communities became possible only with the development of the Internet and information technologies. One of biggest pitfalls of the cyberspace has been that it gave rise to one more form of divide amongst the society, termed as digital divide. But at the same time, the cyberspace has provided many opportunities to the mankind to spread education and disseminate knowledge through a number of channels including virtual communities. Even while managing an organization or community, cyberspace lends a helping hand (Kitchen, 2001). Development of virtual communities on the cyberspace, within a section of the society, group of friends, peer groups etc. are some of the examples which have become quite prevalent in our society today. Though earlier as well, we used to have the concept of the gathering of like-minded people, parties, clubs etc. but those were more formal in nature. Virtual Community Defined Howard Rheingold defines Virtual Communities as: ‘social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace”. The main problem with this definition is that it does not take into account social relations and unique communication emerged in cyberspace. In contrast to Howard Rheingold, Bartnatt v(2002) defines virtual community as “a group of people interacting via media technologies, usually the Internet” (Bartnatt 2002, p. 43). On the other hand, development of virtual communities in today’s cyberspace like social networking sites, have made it easier for a wider section of the community to join the group/s and take the benefits, enrich the information database or help in disseminating the information. Cyberspace and the missionary zeal of some of the community leaders has further given a flip to such development. In contrast to Howard Rheingold, Feenberg and Maria Bakardjieva explains the nature of virtual community as (2004): “If face-to-face contact is required by definition, then obviously no community can form online” (p. 37). How the curiosity amongst the kids help them in understanding the wonderful world of cyberspace, animations, paintings etc. and how this similar curiosity helps in developing of a like-minded groups of kids desirous of learning skills provided they get an opportunity (Baudrillard, 2000). Identity and place play a crucial role in virtual communities defining unique communication patterns and interaction between users. The continuing releases of both the Microsoft and Netscape WWW browsers will greatly extend the ways in which individuals can communicate. These enhanced facilities will be available for intracompany communications as well as those between individuals in separate organizations (Kling and Courtright 2003). In addition to the simple exchange of e-mail messages it will be possible to have a private on-line dialogue with a group of people irrespective of where they are located. As the sophistication and variety of these new forms of communications increases it will take longer for the technical standa