Our increasingly interconnected world has made it easier for information and disease to spread. However a new study from Harvard University and Cornell University shows that fewer “degrees of separation” can make social networks too weak to disseminate behavioral change.

Residents of Second Life can now become cash buyers for land and property in their virtual world.

Andrea Simmons, Consultant Security Forum Manager at British Computer Society comments, “As we become citizens of cyberspace and with social networking sites making details of members visible through public search engines, we need to learn how to use privacy settings in better ways and use computers safely.”

Explores a traditional usage of the term community in contrast to the modern day perception as demonstrated in an 'Internet community' such as Flugpo.com.