The Internet has transformed into a world of its own. You can do anything from finding a date for a Saturday night, to finding an E-mail address of a distant friend that you haven't spoken to in years. The use of the Internet has been growing exponentially for the last couple of years, and will continue to do so in the future. More and more people are feeling left out unless they participate in this new phenomena. The main way that the growing use of the Internet has changed our lives is the manner in which we are able communicate with each other.
People use E-mail instead of the post office, or they use chat instead of the telephone.
In many ways, using E-mail can be a more efficient method because it can travel around the world in seconds. Along with these new means of communication, a new aspect of sociology has emerged. Studying sociology and the Internet has been growing in popularity. This new study has given rise to the idea of the virtual community, and since the limits of the Internet is almost endless, so is its ability to create new social phenomena. A community is made up of a culture or cultures.