Real Or Virtual Love - Do More Good Or Harm?

Avatars are often used as an online representation if a user and may or may not resemble the user's real life self.Reasons why people take on multiple identities online:freedom in the exploration of other forms of existence,opportunities for those whom have been marginalised in society to express their opinions freely without the fear of being discriminated against etc.\n\nHowever,the blurring of boundaries between the digital and real world could lead to implications such as people spending too much time on the Internet and even forgoing real life interactions with people.They submerge themselves in their online identities (sometimes possessing multiple online identities) and may develop a multi-identity syndrome if not monitored closely.

A news broadcast concerning the signing up of seven credit loans by a teenage boy on Facebook.\n

A project done by a student from a Digital Media Studies class at Pomona College.This video touches on the reasons why males choose female characters in MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) and why gender swapping is so common online.

Second Life enables people to interact on an equal level with one another because discographies of the players are not made known to others.Hence,people's real identities are protected and they can truly express who they want to be in the game.

The author is outraged by the virtual discrimination against people who appear to be "different".By "different",I refer to the open displays of gender and sexuality preferences online.Although the judging of others is inevitable in both the virtual and real world,there appears to be a tendency for people to be more lax when voicing out their critics for the former.Hence,the author calls for the implementation of a "Gender Freedom Day" for the virtual world.This would allow these"different" people to unite and be confident about who they really are.

An abstract video depicting the new "real" identity in today's world.Often,people deem online personalities as being more "fake" than the unseen person typing behind the computer.However,considering that all the different identities come from the same person,is this distinction between the real and unreal identities fair?\n\n