Virtual life?
Since I’ve read an article (http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html) that’s talking about the things that trap us in virtual world… I’ve been thinking…
Maybe I’ve been running away from the real world (even until this moment while writing my blog), I’ve been trapped inside the virtual world without me even noticing…
A friend of mine said, that we’ve all slowly turning into computer mutants… when you start spending significant time in front of a computer, then you slowly turning into a mutant.
Personally, I would say… we’ve all turn ourselves into virtual characters. Back a few years ago, if someone tells me this, I would reject to the idea and argue that idea at instant!
But now, that I am an internet character myself… (I should say ‘characters’). The idea horrify me… what have I become?
I tried to run from my real world loneliness and try to find a shelter in internet… meet new people, make new friends and even turn old friends into new people!
This idea actually slaps me on the face a few days ago, when I realised that my friend, my nice friend in real life, is an internet bitch!
I can talk about lots and lots of random things to her, but in real life… we had so little to talk about.
I tried to be the same person in real life and virtual life when with her, but since she’s not the same… it’s difficult for me to adjust!
Hiding behind a computer monitor makes us unassailable to physical gesture and tone of voice.
Makes us less tolerant to other people.
Makes us care less…
The more I think about it, the more it scares me…
I mean like this blog of mine, I decided to write a blog since I know that people dislike to hear these kind of things that came out of my thoughts… so, instead of finding the right people to talk to and share this uncommon thoughts, I’ve decided to write a blog, of where people alike me exist (they don’t exist in real world since it’s socially unacceptable to be as I am… oh yeah, it is! I am a cast out from the people, I know this true)
I use less effort to make people understand me, and that makes me less affectionate!
Talking to a friend through messenger this whole afternoon makes me even scared, since this friend of mine… is someone I met in the internet and we’ve been sharing our thought and dreams like old friends. Oh, indeed it’s nice to have someone listen to you… but as usual, eventually I got bored.
Yup, I’ve begun to long for real human interaction… and now… oh God! To be honest, I don’t know where to look or to start!
A constant chat and greet virtually nowadays can be classified as a ‘relationship’! it cannot! It’s not real, it’s just illusion. Since we all begin to imagine what’s the person on the other side is like, and we start forming our own opinion and ‘BOOM’… we are trapped in our own illusion of our virtual friend (I mean, someone even thought that I am sweet?!?! Huh? I am anything but sweet!)
Or if we don’t like the person, we can just ‘blocked’ that person away… literally blocked them. Spam them from our messenger, or blocked them from our facebook page or pretend that we didn’t get their message. Oh, there are no more courtesies in internet…
I really missed real human interaction!
Now tell me friends, instead of you listening to my thoughts, let me hear yours!
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Mine was written earlier in the day and in essence, I think that human interaction has evolved to the point that our pockets of existence and the parameters of that interactions have gone the way of so many things that we tire of.
The de-evolution of those social interactions has led to that feeling of anonymity and being able to be nasty because there are no physical repercussions to that sort of behavior.
If you don’t mind, I would like to link this blog post of yours to mine so that it offers a wider scope since I have only begun to scratch the surface of human virtual interactions.
I forgot to link my post didn’t I?
Here it is:
http://astardly.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/virtual-sociology/
Internet itu media Mbak Hapi. Konsep anonim punya sisi positif pasti, negatif juga ada sih. Pertama : Penipuan. Hi Hi Hi. Pencitraan, dsb. Sisi positifnya
: Egaliter, persamaan derajad. Saya bisa berdebat sama profesor dan anak TK dengan perasaan kesamaan derajad. Saya bisa bertanya dan menjawab tanpa malu-malu, dll. Selalu ada plus dan minus. HI HI HI
oh benerrr banget LP
sayangnya anonimitas menjadi bumerang bagi kita…
kekuasaan dan kekuatan anonimitas membuat kita lupa dan terbuai…
sayangnya saya merupakan korban pernipuan berkali2 hahaha….
(kok gw ketawa yah?!)
@ E_Dragon
by all mean, please do
agree that this anonymity has gave us the power beyond our imagination!
you don’t have to deal with social punishments, guilt, remorse, well… you know, feelings that actually made human a human!
Thank you hapitri and I am updating my blog right after this comment. Thank you for your discussion as well.
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@ E_Dragon
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you are most welcome, and thank you to give some essence in this topic (if you notice, Indonesians prefer to read ‘pop’ rather than real articles
hmmm…. kalau aku di internet sama di kehidupan nyata sama ga?
yah namanya juga internet, banyak yang terlihat jauh lebih keren atau macho kalau di internet daripada di kehidupan benernya… Aku juga mungkin ga terlihat lebih pemalu daripada yang terlihat kan? Hahahahaha
But seriously, you don’t know if it is a dog in the end of that cable which is chatting with you… just get a real life my dear, with real flesh and blood