1. A community service offering apparatus for exchanging information with a plurality of user terminals connected by a network, the apparatus comprising: virtual space information storing means for storing in advance information about a plurality of virtual spaces; virtual space offering means for allowing a user to select any one of said virtual spaces and for offering the selected virtual space as a user-specific virtual space owned by said user regarded as a privileged user; and charge controlling means for charging said privileged user who owns said user-specific virtual space a fee corresponding to a type of said user-specific virtual space.