Virtual World

A virtual world according to Wikipedia is "is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars." This blogging post should be talking about virtual worlds and if i were to travel to one where would i go. The question is where would I go? The answer is I don't know. I love the internet, using the computer, being able to find what I'm looking for, being able to interact with other people (friends) via email, Myspace etc. but virtual world is not my thing. I have no interest whatsoever in creating an avatar, wasting my life away online.

First of all what does a person gain from this virtual world? Besides if you think your so good at something why cant you do it in real life anyway? I also think that virtual worlds can change a person's psychology. If a person spends all their time online, in a virtual world shooting people, what makes you think that he will obtain from doing it in real life? The line between virtual and real for that person has already become gray. The only thing that is stopping that person is time. When a person spends so much time online, its the same as watching TV. When a person is involved in those activities they abstain from real relationships because they don't have time, they don't value real social relationships. These kinds of actions make them more social outcasts and then they have no choice but to recede into their virtual world.

I believe that there is much to be done to make my real world a better place and hiding in my mind or in a virtual society is not necessarily going to make it a better place. Another thing is that the people that you meet online act more differently then they would in real life do to the fact that they can remain anonymous. The people online could be felons or other weird people. They could be preying on you. They could be stalking you. There is no true way to know the motives of people. Basically abstaining from virtual worlds is in a way a form of self preservation.

There are many reasons that i don't like virtual worlds that are online, that involve aviators, etc. What kind of society are we going to have if the only way we communicated was online? Some people could say that it will be better... no killings, murders, shootings. Everyone would be too busy online. But killings, murders exist online as was written on the news recently. A young woman, killed her "ex-husbands" aviator. Humans are humans and their nature they take everywhere with them. I could go on and on but i believe you get the gist. I am against virtual worlds. Besides this could lead to an even faster rise in obesity then what we already see. Its better to live in the real world, a real life. If you don't like the person you are in the real world, then change. No one is stopping you but yourself, it only takes effort. The question is do you think that its worth the effort? I do.