Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

Nowadays, technology is expanding rapidly and huge. The virtual world is an imaginary environment, where people can create a second life. It’s a very creative site, which is a nice place for interaction. People can meet more people (worldwide) in there than in their real life; they are not afraid of doing anything there. They can gain more freedoms.  

The article “At Hearing, Real and Virtual Worlds Collide” talks a little story about a real life hearing case was imitated in the virtual world, Second Life. The potentials of the online virtual world are discussed by the politicians and the witnesses.  

Pros: In there, people can get anything they want such as things that they can’t afford in real life to satisfy themselves; they can also do whatever they want like working, communicating, entertaining, learning, and so on. This is a very good place to relax, get rid of the stress from the actual life.

Mark Tutton explained that organizations and companies should take the advantage of using the online virtual worlds as a tool to grow their business and communication between employees and customers. “Going to the virtual office in Second Life”. 

Cons: In my personal opinion, I don’t really like the virtual world. The reason being is that people may get used to it a lot; and they will forget about the real world. This is just like game, as people play it a lot, they will be addicted. After all, it’s only the fate world; people will have to get back to the real world. In addition, the face to face communication will be declined as more people use the virtual world online. 

As the social networking is growing, the virtual worlds are going to grow as well. In the near future, the virtual worlds are going to become more and more affordable until everyone can use it like the internet.