Online life sometimes isn’t
July 24th, 2008
The internet. Billions of pinpints of glimmering lights.
Millions of them little pricks.
Most readers here have been involved with the internet to be able to say they’ve cut their teeth long ago. Others, not. This is for the latter.
Escaping reality through virtuality is seductive. It’s sweet, it’s what you want it to be in your mind…because no matter what you may be in search of you’ll always be just one click away from happiness. A few emoticons, and you’ve got what you want.
Until it hurts. Until you place yourself in a position of your own choosing, possibly with hurt feelings, possibly battered, or possibly dead. It’s afterall…just a game…isn’t it?
Before turning on the monitor a person should always keep in mind what they see isn’t necessarily what they’d see or feel in the real world. If you’re new or interested in tips about online safety, check out this Netsmartz Workshop…and always remember…you may be wearing clothes at the computer…
…but am I when you’re IMing me?
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Your article sounds nice and Netsmartz Workshop’s safety tips are wise too, yet the threatening amount of spam messages is constantly growing. Isn’t it strange? Why do we encounter such reality? Isn’t that the result of our attitude towards the virtual reality as the playground?
If sound announcement of our belief may be named the virtual play, then there is no wonder for our doubt in other is so rapidly growing.
I doubt in possibility to escape the infection by hiding from it. I don’t trust any online security because there are no physical shield from the deceptions, because they are our attitude towards the life. The problem is rooted in our spirituality. Thus the remedy may be found just in our generous addressing the wrongdoers as our own brothers and sisters in Spirit.
Tomas,
At least their consistent. Misguided perhaps, but consistent. That’s gotta count for something!