Small Group Online

Small groups use a wide variety of channels. Usually it occurs face-to-face. Nowadays group interaction takes place in online. Online groups serve both relationship or social purposes. Besides that online groups are more task and more efficient than face-to-face groups. Two major types of online groups: the mailing-list group and the chat group.

Mailing-list is communication between one another through e-mail. Communication through mailing lists doesn't take place in real time. It's like regular e-mail, for example when you send your email today, but it mayn't read until next week and also you mayn't get answer for another week. You can be enthuastic about your topic when you send your email, but by the time someone reply.

Chat group is takes place in real time. You see and you hear member's message as it's being sent with virtually. Chat groups can maintain connection with others. Communication in chat group resembles the conversation. Chat groups notify when someone new comes into group and someone leaves the group. Chat groups have advantage that you enable to communicate with people you never meet or interact with otherwise. These kind of groups are international, provide excellent exposure to other cultures, other ideas.