Every day virtual reality becomes more realistic and closer to the “real” world, sometimes it feel that we are getting a little bit too close. We are currently on a brinks to the tragic epidemy, which could expose us to a sudden consequences. More and more people getting into the addiction of social media and virtual reality. Even children these days try to act like characters in the video games that they are so much in love with. don’t’ get me wrong, I once played the role of a made up character from my Disney cartoons- childhood. However, I knew what is real and what is not. The modern kids psychologically are overloaded and sometimes it brings out a tragic ending when kids act out a role of a violent character from a video games, by bringing a weapon to school and shoot their classmates as they would in their latest video game, that they played for over 8-10 hours the hours before.
As we can see in <i>Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 1: U.S.S. Callister, </i>main character Robert Daly got possessed by his own imagination. He exposed his fantasies to his real life, and it became more interested in his made-up world, rather than a ‘reality” that we all know of . He was trying to escape his problems in his personal life, by hiding inside of the video game, but finally the “real” problems have caught up to him.
The same thoughts we can see in “Mobilizing a Movement of the Mind” by Aja Monet and “How Twitter Became Home to the Teen Status Update: ‘Local Twitter’ is a booming network of basic, young suburbanites across the country.” I feel like a new generation are more vulnerable to be addicted to the virtual world they live in, simply because they know no other. We, as a generation that know what it is to be without a cell phone or an internet, will never understand the physiological need of a virtual intellect. Therefore, they (the new generation) tend to find shelter, or an escape, in the world that they create on the screens of their smartphones or other gadgets. I am afraid that we might, at some point, lose a sense of reality altogether.. Is this a future we want for our grandchildren, or even our children? Today, a young audience already became addicted on social media, a person with least “likes” on their social media pages, may become an outcast, simply of not being interested in the virtual world. We, as a social environment, become fully dependable on the media, we are being forced to participate in the willingful share of private information. I am not sure if they live in “real” reality, or they build their “real” reality around virtual one? Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Live 360, etc..require tremendous amount of time. The time we must deduct from the world we as of now call “real”. . But what is “Real” after all? Should we judge people who choose a different reality? As of now, we might still have a choice, but they way “real” is predicted in the near future, might not seem very promising.
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