Cyberspace

After reading convergences it talks about if cyberspace is a real place. For example, when your shopping online and you fill up your shopping cart you are not really in a store or are you? Technology is blurring the boundaries between real and virtual. Personally I do not think where you go and what you do online is real. It is not tangible you can not experience half of what you would if you were truly there in person. Since more and more things are happening online like match.com where you can meet a potential spouse or skyping, people are less encouraged to go out in the world and do it on their own. I think that is a negative thing. It creates laziness and an attitude that everything should be done for us. Cyberspace brings people together, but not in the same place. How would you truly get to known someone by chatting online or through the phone. You would not be able to pick up on emotion like sarcasm or see their initial reaction about a pressing question. I would not be able to form a special bond with a person without being face to face and being around each other. The sidewalks in cyberspace do not have distance, adjacency, and fixity. There is lack of direction and physical places. That is proof that cyberspace is not a real place and that people should not get confused.