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Wth the new media and virtual reality everthing is surfaces that must be explored and no surface has any reality or legitimacy than any other .The embodied life that people live on a day to day basis seems to me to have more reality than the games that we play on the internet.A vitual community is a social network with a common interest ,idea ,task .Differnt virtual communities have different levels of interaction and participation amongst their members .This ranges from adding comments or tags to a blog .On the internet people do not know who you really are,because we cannot see eachother on cyberspace.In the disembodied world of cyberspace identity is so ambigious.Many of the basic cues about about personality and social role we are accustomed to in the physical world are absent .In a virtual community a person can be whatever thay want to be .One can have claim to as many electronic persona's as one has time and energy to create .In a virtual community a blue carrot can communicate wtha red mouse ,our identities are transformed ,there is a sense of artificiality ,technological elements become extentions of our bodies .MUD stands for Imaginary world of computer databases where users uses words to build worlds and all the subjects in them ,identity is the first thing one creates in MUD .People whose physical handical make it difficult to form new friends ,find that virtual communities treat them as they have always wanted to be treated as thinkers and as individuals and feeling beings .The internet has become a significant social laboratory for experimenting with the constructions and resonstructions of self that characterize postmodern life.Identities on line are infinite