As a couple, Romeo and Juliet had a lot to talk and their communication has become a part of Western culture. But the process of their communication is interesting, informative, problematic, and in the end tragic because they belonged to different groups. The point is that groups are the fundamental building blocks of organizations, communities, society; they mediate the form, direction, and content of individual and dyadic communication. Influential sociological concepts of "group" include reference groups, kinship groups, group stratification, socioeconomic groups and the like. Here, however, we focus on one locus of group communication-small groups. More specifically, we consider communication as mediated not only by its occurrence within a group but also by new communication technology.