CYBERSPACE - JK

I thought this reading brought up a very interesting point. Even though I don't think it matters whether you regard cyberspace as a place or not. I wanted to talk about the "ISN'T IT ALL HARMLESS?" It's scary that people are spending so much time on the internet or in "cyberspace" that they lose almost all contact with the outside world. It's becoming such a problem that people need to go to support groups. I understand that some people might find the idea that they can be who ever they want appealing, but it's really scary. People don't need to go out there and find someone to date, it's only a click away. Online dating isn't rare anymore. Virtually anything can be done from the computer and that is making us all hobbits. You need to have interaction with other people, that's the way it has always been. It doesn't seem healthy to not interact socially in someway. Take the movie Surrogates for example, in the movie everyone lives through a surrogate, meaning they sit in their apartment and control an avatar. They lose physical contact with one another and people don't even have too look like their surrogates. The end of the movie shows that we need person to person interaction and living through our computer just won't cut it.

As nice as technology is I think we all have to remember that it's not our lives. Our parents and grandparents lived without all these advances and so can we. Cyberspace is certainly spreading but we shouldn't let it take us over.