They simple are. The fact that technology, texts, and bodies intersect in cyberspace has yet to catch up to the popular mythology. The body is contained in this space as much as the texts. We are all contained within the same chora that produces bodies and intertextualities. The MOO is quite literally a space for call and response- a space to connect with others.
Websites are more fixed, but their call is the same.
It is the call for community. We are all interconnected whether we acknowledge it or not, but there is something necessary about the acknowledgment. It gives us identity, community, embodiment. But almost more importantly, the WEB provides a popular metaphor to conceptualize this very fact. It is difficult to see and conceptualize ethereal relationships- relations of power, of discursivity.