Response to Sims' "Virtual World"

In response to Sims’ post I have to agree with Alali in the fact that the majority of people who spend countless hours creating a new version of themselves would not say that what they are doing is a video game. I think a good deal of these people have problems interacting with people in a face to face setting so they use the avatar and the internet as sort of a barrier to safely do things that they would never do in real life. Referring to Alali’s response again, I think Dateline is a perfect example of this. There have been psychologists on the show who have talked about how certain people, when they talk, blog, or post things online, they suddenly feel this power that they don’t have in real life and will say anything because they don’t fear the repercussions of their actions because of the shield of cyberspace.