Community of interest

A community of interest, or interest-based community, is the community of people who share a common interest or passion. These people exchange ideas in addition to thoughts about the assumption passion, but may know or care little about each other outside this area. Participation in a community of interest can be compelling, entertaining and name a community where people service frequently and stay on for extended periods. Frequently, they cannot be easily defined by a specific geographical area.

In other words, "a community of interest is a gathering of people assembled around a topic of common interest. Its members name part in the community to exchange information, to obtain answers to personal questions or problems, to upgrade their understanding of a subject, to share common passions or to play." In contrast to a spatial community, "a 'community of interest' is defined not by space, but by some common bond e.g. feeling of attachment or entity e.g. farming, church group."

"Online communities" connect to communities of interest in that often, they determining out of interests in a specific topic. A improvement of online communities over place-based communities is that of non-physical access to house involvement.