Monday, March 14, 2011
Online Virtual LIfe
I feel that these online social communities are changing the way people communicate to one another. People can make themselves look anyway they want, act anyway they want, and say anything they want and their will be no consequences for it. That's why people love these games so much. You can get away with anything on sites like that. They let people be who they want to be and not who they really are. The games are addictive because people begin to like that life better their own. If you go on these sites and play for a while you will notice that you won't find one fat person or an ugly person. People will make themselves look so attractive because in real life they aren't. These online games are bad because people become so addicted and attracted to their online life that their real life does not matter anymore. This article reminds me of the movie, "Surrogates." This movie was about how people could make a body and live through that body while they sat at home and controlled it. In thus movie everybody was so attractive and didn't have any flaws. This is what these games are, they are an alternate universe that looks better then the one we live in.
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Not a lot of ugly people out there in the virtual world, eh?
ReplyDeleteI've never seen Surrogates, but it sounds like it deals with similar themes.
Good post.