Virtual Reality

Virtual reality allows for people to live whatever life they wish they could have through a digital world in which they can communicate and interact with other people who want to do the same thing. VR is good because it allows for people to be creative in a space where they won't be judged by their peers in real life. This gives them complete freedom to do whatever they want without the fear of any consequences. However, people can start to lose grip of reality and think that they have as much freedom to do whatever they want in the real world like they do in the virtual world. Some people may even spend more time in the virtual world than they do in the real world.

Refrences:

1. Social Influence and the Diffusion of User-Created Content by Eytan Bakshy, Brian Karrer, and Lada A. Adamic. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, July 6-10, Stanford, CA. Available at: http://www.personal.umich.edu/~ladamic/papers/SecondLife/SocialInfluenceEC.pdf

2. "In Room 100, It's Sid and Nancy All Over Again,"by Saki Knafo, The New York Times, May 3, 2009, p. CY6. Available at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/nyregion/thecity/03virt.html