Building Groups In The Virtual Community

Internet development in China more than 10 years, changed our life and brought far-reaching effects in our economic, social, cultural, ideological. The actual impact of Internet on various aspects of social life and the life characteristics and behavioral characteristics of the people in the new era of the new network, particularly in-depth study. As technology advances, the Internet has changed the traditional time and space for social action and the role of interpersonal relationships, building a virtual community that is different from the real community, which is a human interaction platform, so that Unrelated people across time and space "meeting" and build a "group." Do this network groups have their unique nature and form ?Is it only the new variety of groups for traditional definition of the sociology , are there any fundamental differences between of them? Can we study and interpret this new phenomenon from the old framework. Or that seemingly similar phenomenon reflects totally different social background and logic, should we need new ideas and research framework? In this paper, we take the lesbian groups in Tianya Community as an example, we study the border of groups, group identity and group identity construction to inspect virtual community groups in the construction process and mechanisms to try to answer a few basic theoretical questions: 1,what is the essence of groups? 2,what is the most crucial characteristics of groups? 3,what is the group's main function ? This article came to the conclusion that network groups as new groups form are different from the reality of a group , have all groups in real terms - in a certain social relations in a personal synthesis of the body, the groups also have a central feature -- -- Groups with common sense, building a relatively fixed identity groups, the groups have a sense of belonging and identity, and has been accepted by the members of external groups, a certain group border, the primary function of the general population and also the same - to meet People variety of needs.