:: CYBERSPACE ::

Using the Internet, it is now entirely possible to live an online life (or lives) that are completely separated from one’s real life (RL). All over the world a vast number of people log onto a life that has no relationship to their flesh-and-blood world.

Online friends and those that we meet online may never truly ‘know’ who they are. The idea that the Internet can afford us lives beyond our physical circumstances introduces many fascinating possibilities.

For example...CASE STUDY: MUD

The Star Trek game, TrekMUSE and LambdaMOO, are both computer programs that can be accessed through the Internet.

The games known as MUD, Multi User Domains. MUD is also known as Multi User Dungeon, taken from the story Dungeons and Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game.

MUD is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games and social instant messaging chat rooms. MUD often have a fantasy setting, while many others are set in science fiction-based universe or themed on popular books, movies, animations, history, etc.

In MUD, we can be an aggressive person, using all violence to defeat your enemies. Or we can be a nerdy person, obeying all commands from other persons. MUD provides worlds for anonymous social interaction in which one can play a role as close to or as far away from one’s “real self” as one chooses.

Example others online games that bring us negative impact are:

counter strike may teach us violence


IMPACT OF THE INTERNET

MUD is dramatic examples of how computer mediated communication can serve as a place for the construction and reconstruction of identity.

One problem that arises is that of the differentiation between real life and Internet crimes that are committed.

In MUD, it is completely acceptable to use violence to other persons...BUT can we think
What happens when the players of these programs are children??

It must completely surprise beacuse nowadays..in this new era...many childrens are more advance even more advance than their parents!!!!!