The birth and death of cyberspace

Cyberspace can be viewed as a place where people generally go to in order to escape reality and enter a world where they can enter a world a become anyone or anything they wish. It is a world where people are able to create an identity they wish to go by. Generally people that are unhappy with the reality they live in tend to spend more of their time in cyberspace than in real life. This could also what is reality and what is virtual. Millions of people a day enter the cyberspace world to socialise with others, gaming or on-line  banking,. it could be said that the difference between both reality and virtual worlds depends on the individual and as not something that can be put under the category of reality is being in the real world and cyberspace is being in the virtual. 

Second life is a virtual world where people literally live a natural life, in terms of shopping, meeting people and making money. People would put their real money in order to upgrade their avatar and the world they have become apart of. This has become more of a place of how people wish they could live rather than a virtual game. By having spent more time in this world than in the meatspace, it questions if we ever leave the virtual world if we are always using virtual technology or which world do we actually define as being the real one as they both merge together the way they do.

Social networking sites such as 'Facebook' is becoming more like a virtual world we live in as we create images of ourselves which reflects on how we want others viewing our profiles to see us, such as posting certain pictures to gives impressions of being an extrovert and socialising with friends when the user is actually an introvert that doesn't go out much, but only posts pictures that say otherwise. The same applies to the user names people apply to themselves, it is not generally their name but the type of person they are or the type of person they wish to be, such as 'peterlikestoparty123' when they hold no characteristics of the name but what other users to believe that they do.
This would suggest that in most occasions, people may be living in a virtual world but it becomes more of a reality as they work harder to create an image of themselves than they do in the real world.

Cyberspace was originally a place where people could literally go, but with technology developing like it does we are able to take the cyberspace with us on our mobile phones or PDAs. We no longer escape the real world to go into another but are now able to mix the two together how ever we want. As we are always connected to the virtual world it is possible to be living two very different lives as two different identities of us no exist.