How an Evolution can affect us ?

Internet follows an evolution and as all evolution people have been affected in various ways: they can be scared, doubtful, need time of adaptation. It means that people behave differently e.g.: how they communicate (especially the new generation with internet).It has also created a strange phenomenon: communicate people with companies, companies with people, people between them ,companies with companies ,to make to world becoming a small village. That is why Dr Alelks Krotoski tried to understand in her documentary ‘’ The virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus’’on BBC the 24^th February 2010. In this report, she is explaining different aspects of why people act like that on Internet by this documentary three main points are underlined:

What is the relationship between people and Internet?

The Internet becomes a nightmare for many families because they cannot control children lives compare to old generation, when they were young they did not meet this problem. It means that they can have an access too many information through the Internet: Website with adult content, violence. Also this access at many information allow them to do not keep focus on just one information. In fact, Internet provides many tools like Facebook, Twitter, My space and research engine websites. All these tools make them lazier in terms of researching information. Because of Internet tools, people do not really need to find information. It comes directly to them. E.g.: “new feed” on facebook, Twitter, people need information. It can bring another question about privacy life. All these virtual communities are fake. It underlines that there are just superficial and does not not represent real friendship. Information on Wikipedia or on the “new feed”can be considered as “long information” in the time because it changes every minute.

How does Internet affect Social Relationships ?

The whole internet revolution may affect our relationship and our way of thinking in these days, but the thing is in 100 years later may someone will come and say that the relationships and human way of thinking in 2010 were the best comparing with 2??? ,the meaning is each time has its own aspects beside of that the affect of the internet or whatever the society think that is affecting our way of life or thinking. On the other hand the effect will be different from culture to another ,for example taking south Korea as an example ,the affection won't be the same or the reactions won't be alike with the rest of the world, the reaction will be different from country to another ,from culture to another the reaction also will be in different levels ,as above it is all depend on the values , the culture ,and a the way of thinking that a specific country or society adopt.

How does internet can change the sense of the reality ?

There is a kind of virtual reality stimulated by a computer where the design and the graphism are linked to create a kind of real world. It’s a synthesized world also called Cyberland. It is a new world where the life is managed by defined rules like in the international game: Second Life. As shows this program and confirms it on its official website on http://secondlife.com/?v=1.1 , being a member of the Second Life community will give you the opportunity of designing your own virtual world.

Therefore, it is very easy to be addicted and to forget your real life (family repairs, social life, professional life, cultural values and meanings…) because as claims Second Life, and that is why this program has generated a huge success, take your chance to live a second life. They attract people with very dreamy sentences like “Be anyone with an avatar”.

Imagination is the key point of this game. As confirms Pascal in “Les Pensées”, imagination moves away an individual from his or her real life. It means that if the individual follows all his or her thoughts he or she can be lost and will get difficulties to recognize and differentiate what is the real life and what is not.

Therefore, it is what Second Life tries to do: forgetting the reality. Their fame is established because they guarantee that everything is possible with this program even what is not executable in the real life. According their promotion on http://secondlife.com/?v=1.1 , future members will be able to build hotels or a theme park, product a movie, launch a luxury brand of clothes, create a company, do what they want to do with people they want and wherever. Moreover, they could ride a dragoon, get Ninjas or Vampires as friends, live with goblins, go shopping everyday.

Many of this activities are very difficult or impossible to realize in the real life. This game is able to realize people fantasies. But even if the virtual world is responsible from many addictions as confirms Dr Alelks Krotoski, the success of Second Life is still increasing. In 2009, 20 billions of members are using Second Life.

Therefore, it underlines one main interesting question: Does this world more available and better to live than the real one?

Those main points reveal significant problems what Internet evolution generates. But in an other way , the new generation of teenager fell more involve for the problem of the world by this new tool which is Internet. Also this evolution is not a problem for this new generation who fell comfortable . Maybe It is just the old generation who want to protec them or is just affraid of this evolution. Like all the precedent evolution.

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