Internet Essay

People these days think that fame is an important thing. It can control how people can act. They get the fame from creating a virtual self. A virtual self can create a new life or your personality. People in real life may be unsatisfied with how their lives are and want to escape reality, through facebook or avatars. 91% of facebook users go back on facebook because its so addictive. “traffic on facebook has grown 272% in the past year…”


People want to escape reality. They do this because they are not satisfactory with how they want to live. “An avatar becomes ones digital self…”. Avatars can create a “new” you. “ A 27-year-old wife and mother Becky Glasure, who complains of never having being taken seriously.” She didn’t want to be ignored so she created an avatar and escaped reality to the virtual world.


Not all humans are created equal. They wish to all have perfect bodies like the ones that are being advertised. This can make people sad and self-concious of who they are, creating depression. To escape that depression they want to escape to the virtual world. “ there is ample repititon, even among them. For one, quite a number of avatars are just younger, thinner and prettier versions of their creators.”


Social networking sites these days are so popular that millions of people around the world use it. It’s also a recent trend and the government doesn’t have much control over it. It’s a good thing because you can see a long lost friend over facebook. “for students of the generation who have grown up “online” it is easy to take for granted the virtual society we live in.” What the quote is saying is that the kids that were born onto the computer, they don’t understand the risks we live in.


This only shows that danger can lurk anywhere in the internet. There are predators everywhere. Predators aren’t only random strangers, they could be someone you know. “20 students were suspended last month from TeWinkle Middle School for two days for participating in a Myspace group where one student allegedly threatened to kill another…” This quote shows how much thust peopleput onto the mainstream social networking sites, they escape reality to facebook or myspace and share their stories. Not only that , but people these days post many things that might regret. Most not very effective to their goal, but still enough to haunt them.