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Are our on-line identites relevant to who we are off-line?Is online even a real place?


More and more people are spending an increasing amount of time connecting with others in on-line environments. Virtual spaces are becoming more and more realistic, and our kids would rather text than call.Other's have found that the identities they create in cyberspace have proved to have negative consequences on their life.Are our on-line identities relevant to who we are off-line?Is on-line even a REAL place?I think our on-line identites are relevant to who we are off-line. I have seen it alot and have read a great deal about these negative consequences of perhaps creating an identiy online that is not quite you. It not only says a great deal about a person but it is sad at the same time. I have been a memeber of myspace and facebook and have found lots of profiles of people who tend either make them selves appear nice,meaner or even more Risque in real life. I have also have fallen prey to getting creepy mesages from strangers on these types of sites and it is always kind of scary. Sometimes you dont realize that you have to make your profiles private or people can send you what ever they feel like .You can give off the wrong impressions on people who perhaps known you all your life and leave bad tastes in their mouths. I do think on-line is a real place because of how many people use to connect with one anther. I have gone back on forth on the that notion but as I sit here writing, I have my msn running, my facebook just in case I get a message that I have been waiting for. Today I was playing the game World of warcraft and you wouldnt believe how many people play that game but depend on your character do certian things and not only can you play this game , you can chat with people . It becomes a real place to many of these players just as "on-line" becomes a real place for us who are just browsing