Online Gamers Look For Missing Life Online
from the NY-Times-discovers-online-gamers dept
In a bit of a weird feature article from the NY Times, they spend the entire article talking about a single guy who spends 40 hours a week playing in an online multiplayer video game. It's unclear how they picked this particular guy, and what they're really saying about him (though, there is a quote in the article from someone saying, "it becomes a way to replace parts of your life that you don't have in real life.") Basically, the article seems to be showing how some people who are having difficult times in "the real world" can now escape online into a world where they can act much more like the person they believe they are.
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What is reality?
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Why is the net considered not real?
I haven't yet seen headlines for international murders in which chatter in country A pissed off someone from the other side of the world, so person from country B comes to kill him. The world is getting smaller all the time. Perhaps the new model of international terrorism will consist of more personal vendettas, instead of devotion to abstract causes.
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However, that being said, there is something to be said about face2face time and human contact. I wouldn't want to go 4-5 months without so much as a handshake or hug (or more than that from my SO)...I don't think we'll get rid of that anytime soon.
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