My blog on Identity in a
Virtual World by Michelle Jana Chan
Is this the new escape for many from the real world problems?
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The Virtual World is an imaginary world that many people from the
real world feel the need to escape to.
It somehow releases them from the everyday pressures of real world life.
Why? Maybe those people are not happy with who and what they are so, they
result to a place where they are in more control. Of what exactly are they in control of one
might ask? Well, it has to be only one
thing. In their imaginary world who they could possibly be in their real world.
When in that virtual world they may feel they have the power to
say anything they want to say, be as bold as they want to be and unfortunately
for some, be as sick in the mind as they choose to be and that is pretty scary.
Michelle Jana Chana mentions in her
article, “Nick Yee who studies virtual reality at Stanford University,
California, and says he can be scared or sickened by what he sees in the online
world…That’s what really fascinates me about these worlds. They trap us even
more.” If that is truth then there is a
reason to be scared or sickened by what is seen in the online world.
It is a world for those who have the need to be in control of
something in their lives whether it be for the fun of it or to escape and be
that powerful person, even if it is not real.
They get their release of pressure while no one will ever know who they
are and somehow in some way are able to function respectively in the real
world. Strange isn't it, but yet it is that way for many out there.
Also,
it might be for some people that their social life is not on any type of level respectively, because they do not know how to carry on a conversion with
people. They lack confidence in what they have to say. Maybe it’s because some people are so bullheaded it dampens their
social life to a bare minimum causing the people in their real life to not
want to socialize with them, this is
understandable. These are the know-it-all's probably. Not very many people want to
hang out with people like that. So as strange and foreign as it may seem for many, that
is where the virtual world is the escape from reality and releases the pressure
of the every day life which let's the individual pretend to be whom they wish were able to be, without having to give their true identity sparing them the embarrassment from the people in their real world.
Picture by: Images of Virtual World Avatar. www.bing.com/images
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