week 13- cyberspace

The first thing I found to be really interesting is when you are talking to someone like in Koppell's example of a chat room, you are all in one place. I never thought while I was skyping someone or talking to someone on Facebook that we were all in one place. So when I thought about that there are probably millions of people in one place at one time on Facebook constantly throughout the day. I also found it interesting that members of groups are also in one place. It's weird to think when logging into anything it is considered to be logging into another dimension. Where is this dimension they are talking about when they actually think about this metaphor they are using? Do they think of it as like another planet out there? When thinking of cyberspace as a thing, I don't really know what I think of it as. I guess I just have always thought of the internet as always being there and when it's not there, I have absolutely no idea what to do. I think that's a sign of how dependent we have all become of the Internet. The distance article really is interesting how fast you can visit a site that is based out of one part of the world, but then the next second you can be visiting a web site out of another place in the world in a matter of seconds. When the article talks about there being a lack of direction in cyberspace I believe that to be true. Especially when you are trying to google something and it comes back with thousands of results, choosing which article to pick is often difficult and finding one that is reliable. I found some of the articles to be sometimes confusing and at times boring.