Living in the Virtual world

November 2 2009

virtualworld

Documentary about online gaming

This is a swedish documentary series that in this episode talk about the world of online gaming.It is all i english, except the absolut first part when they explai what it is about. It doesn’t go on for long.

Millions of people live a big part of their lives through these games and some, like 2nd life, also creates business opportunities and is on the verge of having their own legal system.

Alot of people condemn this type of lifestyle, claming it destroys our normal social behaviors and is in almost all cases bad for you. After watching this documentary, I feel that this might just become a natural part of our future everyay social life. Having a virtual avatar self, an your physical self. We are alreay going in that direction by using all sorts of social networks, facebook being the biggest. Are we just scared of the future? Is this the senario that our generation will have trouble accepting, just like our parents had a hard time excepting our obsessiveness with the mobile phone and the computer in general.  The possibilities are endless in the virtual world. Is it all that bad to explore them and buil on them to create enriched experiences and socializations?

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