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OUR SECOND LIFE: VIRTUAL MADNESS – THREAT TO SOCIETIES



Dear, what’s wrong with the world? Everyone is immersed in their phones that I feel like I am speaking to myself?! No one wants to talk?!
         At home, all my children starting from the elder one who is working in a firm and two younger ones studying at school are always busy with their pc or phone; usually reasoning that –I have to send some things to partners, it’s an interesting part, one minute- whenever I want them. Except from “Hi dady,  how are you?”  - they can’t effort more words as their eyes down ,immersed on phone . I compose myself that “ they are children, don’t understand many things yet?!” , however , by surprise , my wife also changed.  Since my son brings her smartphone and linked with WIFI, she becomes busy person. The woman who always sit in the hall, wait my coming from work and talk with me- now not here anymore.  Majority time I found her talking or gossiping with her relatives abroad .
         And this is not the only atmosphere at home, I observe this everywhere- in bus, in the street, at work-you reveal all people of different age holding a phone and searching something. At college, majority don’t listen to lectures- professors speak –but students sit in Facebook or another sites. Even if two –three friends hanging out somewhere, in some moment you can discover that everyone is quite, busy with surfing internet, virtual life.  They forget real world and succumb to second world. Real conversations are not that much attractive than online ones.”  
                                                                 Message from citizen of real world

    
 Up to the present time we have known two forms of communication: oral and written. Today virtual communication is well-known that is already taken an integral part of our life as we use it within work, family, friends etc... As it defined, virtual communication is a mode of communication that include the use of technology- audio and video to communicate with people who are not physically present in front of us.  Obviously, Internet is a significant component of virtual communication. Uniquely,  availability of various apps and services in World Wide Web enabling virtual relationships.
.   Definitely, we cannot close our eyes and go without mention the great advancement and development of the Internet to the world. There is no doubt that  the WWW, better known as the Internet has made our life become easier and more convenient. It is a huge source of information, entertainment, communication, education etc. Internet is the main transnational channel for economic, political, social, business, cultural interactions between not only governments but nations, people, organizations and so on.
    In contrast, for all its advantages and positive aspects, online communication and Internet equally , maybe more dramatically affecting to societies. We try to “better “ things too much that it back fires in some surprising way. At present, there are millions of people out there that are addicted to the Internet and they have alter ego life via Internet. Those people do not go out  and socialize with real people. They choose to have a second life, and they are so caught up in it they don’t even know it. They are on it so much  that they loose sleep because they spend so much time online and they often stay up late.
     Internet addiction settled its roots in the lives of the people so deeply that today this is looking like an essential problem of public health. This addiction is similar to the obsessive compulsive disorder and is also often compared to alcoholism. It has been estimated that around 1o-15 million people in the US are suffering from Internet Addiction Disorder and this is increasing at the rate of 25% every year. Internet has controlled some of them’s life in that much that they got mad if they cannot connect to internet . It become a kind of physiology sickness around us.

    While people are lost in internet or so called “Cyber Community” for a long period of time, they are neglecting friends, family and job, lying or concealing how much time they spend online, sleep deprivation and irritability when attempting to stop using the Internet. A lonely person is most likely to become an Internet addict, because the cyber, virtual world offers a substitute for real social life. So they tend to forget that there is really a life out there.
   Correspondingly, there are various levels and different type of Virtual madness. The most popular one among youngsters- online gaming and gambling. The World of Warcraft, EverQuest, MMOG( Massive Multiplayer Online Game), MMORPG, coupled with Twinity, Second World and other 3D virtual environments, mash up of real world and virtual one where you can travel as avatar and create your own world, play games , chat with different people throughout the world. Some are addicted to online casinos that offer virtual gambling on the Internet. They enter their credit card number and select which game they would like to play, they can wager how much they want, just like in a real casino.
     Another Internet addicts are addicted to pornography. It is especially effective and harmful to children, adults. Because it has an easy access, children and youth can open pornography sites without any difficulty and this can cause them to either become sexually-deviant or sexually addictive. This phenomenon has also caused another problem, and that is an increase in prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in children.
    Furthermore, large amount of the people in the global obtained a regular  habit to check their social sites  at least 10 times in a day. And also millions people like checking celebrities sites, watch pictures and videos when they have to do nothing at all. These are drastic consequences   of Internet and Virtual communication to our society.
     All in all, the excessive amount of entertaining hours spent on the “ International super Highway” is simply not worth the long –term effects that come with it. Internet should not harm to human life, people should control their personal life without any effects, remember real world, parents should always monitor how much time their children spend on the Internet, and relevantly the usage should be beneficial for their development. Internet itself was created as a tool to help our daily agenda, to facilitate our work, so it should stay as a tool, not a controller of our mind.

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