1. A method, comprising detecting, at a computer system, an activation of an avatar representing a target user; accessing, automatically in response to the activation, a remote data store of communication channel information of the target user; receiving a selected communication channel and corresponding communication channel information for the target user based on context data associated with the target user from the remote data store; and automatically and in response to the receiving the communication channel information, initiating a connection between the initiating user and the target user by the selected communication channel.