Howard Rheingold's Virtual Community could be compared with Mark Granovetter's ground-breaking "strength of weak ties" article published twenty years earlier in the American Journal of Sociology.
Rheingoldova Virtualna zajednica se može usporediti sa moćnim člankom "Jačina slabih veza" Marka Ganovettera objavljenog 20 godina ranije u American Journal of Sociology.