your thoughts?

Cyber age has offered a space that is accessible to millions of people around the globe, it glitters with attractive colors, offering a unique opportunity to develop and nourish relationship unheard of a few years ago. Virtual relations has become so real and intense that a lava of paradigm shift in the meanings of relationship will sweep away the necessity of physical proximity as a precondition for long lasting, emotionally strong and benevolent association.

To the advantage of many a virtual friend is known by his/her words, appreciative gestures by using “cyber language”, much of which is quite alien to parents of a young chatter even if the age difference is much less than the traditional “generation gap”. Attracted by immensely strong infatuators language many inexperienced blogger and chatters fall prey to “Love at first byte”, a phenomenon replacing another superficial phenomenon of “love at first sight” notwithstanding the fact that love at first sight, how so ever ridiculous it might sound, offered a little more eyes into sight full analysis to the reality.

For an average immoral person the devil of licentiousness starts to shy away with the abundance of wrinkles, however thanks to the cyberspace where fog of thick invisibility carries with it a recipe of eternal youth, an avenue for an old geezer to practice what his trembling body will not allow him otherwise, at least to the extent of verbally disgorging the crush.
Reality in virtuality does not have a dark side of fallacy alone, a plethora of opportunities flows in the clouds of internet from money making techniques to educating people and from stifling truth with the iron clutches of propaganda to waging culture warfare on our opponents. You can either securely sit on the back of a horse striding along the information highway with a tight grip on the reins of knowledge or you can be swept away with an inaccurate flash flood of absurdity, each of us who has become a victim of cyber addiction has forgotten the path that leads to the door of reality, for us reality lives within the pixels of our monitor, it speaks through a digitalized language of similes, mentoring and molding our behavior towards society.

Internet has opened a new front to a very complex life that we were living in, being a social animal man has been attracted to an opportunity to socialize and express him more than anything else, no wonder why social networking sites, opinion forum and chat sites grow like mushroom, they serve as honey pot to the hackers in quest to break into a group of like mined people, the happiness of finding a person who you can effectively communicate is not less than finding a friend who you can play basketball with.

How as an active member of cyber community would you explain the reality in virtuality, how often you have to go through an emotional trauma while losing trust, how often you become a victim of cyber bullying and how do you deal with it and above all how do you discriminate real from unreal, truth from a lie and information from disinformation.

Although I don't have time to sufficiently respond to your question at the moment, I believe the reason you have not received any responses is because of the way you wrote your post. While it is truly elegant in many regards, it written in a way that is akin to a foreign accent, for most forums talk in a manner which more closely resembles common speech. Elegance of wording is not a sin per se, but I would practice allowing "response windows" to be scattered throughout your post, rather than writing it as you would a paper for an English professor.

I know that my response is far too ambiguous to be of great help, but I hope you get the general gist of what I'm saying.

Good luck.

Thanks, I understand and do agree with you.

Originally Posted by Haristotle

How as an active member of cyber community would you explain the reality in virtuality?
How often you have to go through an emotional trauma while losing trust?
How often you become a victim of cyber bullying and how do you deal with it?
How do you discriminate real from unreal, truth from a lie and information from disinformation?

This might help your cause a bit. In the form of questions versus what may have seemed like a quote.

How as an active member of cyber community would you explain the reality in virtuality?
The virtual world is merely an outlet for behaviour or ideas I'd normally hide within myself. Other's may manifest different qualities in their virtual personalities but it's not something we would generally throw out there for all to see. Reality is what you make out of it, it's all relative to your perception. With some it's very unfortunate the line of reality blurs into fantasy and they become unable to descern that within themselves.

How often do you have to go through an emotional trauma while losing trust?
Assuming you mean online? The fact of the matter is, unless you know a person personally... in-person or in reality...I'd probably not trust anyone. Suffering emotional trauma in the virutual world, to me is much like a child crying because a frog got hit by a car on the game of Frogger. It's not real, and the joys or sorrows in life should be shared in the flesh.

How often you become a victim of cyber bullying and how do you deal with it?
Again, along the same lines as reality -vs- fantasy. If I were pestered in the virtual world I'd block them or ignore them...in any case, it's rare if ever. In reality, I'd do pretty much the same...my value is not based on what someone else thinks. If it comes to physically being threatened, I'd document everything, call the cops, press charges, restraining orders, learn the art of self-defense. With my INFJ personality, I avoid confrontation period.

How do you discriminate real from unreal, truth from a lie and information from disinformation? Online, never take anything for face value. Listen to your gut and be mindful of your own safety. As far as conversing or meeting someone new it's not much different from meeting someone at a bar in reality. Getting to know someone takes time and it takes proof supported by fact; over time trust grows. As I tell my son, "That cute girl you are chatting with is probably a 40 year old male pervert from Omaha". You just never know!

Because I play a lot of video games I've had years of internet experience that I can discuss. But first, just yesterday I was reading an article questioning if video games can teach morals and a guy shared a story which I will paste here.

Next up, A Tale In The Desert, another actual game, this time an MMO. In this game, players were told that a character named Trader Malachi would show up on a certain day with rare goods. He did show up, he did have rare goods and he traded with players one by one as they stood in line. When he reached female players, he told them that he doesn't trade with "property" and made other blatant, terrible, sexist remarks. The male characters then started to wonder if they should trade with Malachi or not. "It's just a game, and he has items I can't get anywhere else," said some. "No it's not just a game, sexual discrimination transcends this game and if you stand up to be counted with that kind of person, you're condoning that behavior" said others. This major event triggered a huge stir in the game and it got people really THINKING about virtual vs. real and about whether it's ok to associate with those who exhibit poor values.

To put it another way, if someone made an agreement with you over the phone, would you say it's not real? It happened in a virtual auditory space, so it doesn't count. Does sexism not count either, as it supposedly doens't count in the game world? Or what about Google going into China, a country known for gross civil rights violations and censorship. Is it ok for Google to enter the Chinese market with their search engine and go along with government mandates to censor searches for things like "tibet" and other civil rights issues? This is disturbingly similar to the situation players found themselves in when confronted with Trader Malachi.

So now for my experience. Well actually, do I really need to say more then that quote did? The poster above me tried to argue that because it is on the internet it means nothing. But that is very untrue. It is similar to sticks/stones/words argument. Words CAN and very much DO hurt. It is no different on the internet. I've seen incredible amount of friendships and even real romantic relationships spark and burn out on the internet. Sure you may not be in the same space physically as these people, but that doesn't make them or the feelings between you and others any less real.