Nowadays, our life seems can not get away from the technology. As the technology improved, the "virtual reality" increases. Thinking about those favorite movies and TV show we enjoy today, how many of them used special effects? In the MSN and facebook, how many “friends” we never meet face to face? Sometimes, although we understand something is not real, we still enjoy in it because those “virtual” things actually can satisfy some part of our wants. “Virtual reality” is the trap of technology. At the time we enjoy the life in technology, we need to be careful about this.
As communication become faster in internet, people changed their communication habit. More and more people like to make friends and communicate through the MSN and Facebook. Different from the traditional face to face meeting, the interaction in MSN and Facebook is limited. Lots of time, we just get know that person by the picture he posted or the things he types. Therefore, what to post and what to type become important as to get a good impression from others. In other words, if you want to be more attractive, and get more friends, you need to be “looking good” in Facebook or MSN. As DieuN said in his blog, “people began to use it as an advertisement of themselves” As to see, it is the consequence of the communication improved, people become more fake, and relationship become more “virtual.” So, can we true the relationship nowadays any more?
Advertisers seem insight the power of the technology, and catch the wants of people. They become spend lots money on Facebook and MSN to promote their products, like Cartier we saw in “New York Times” Moreover, they use many special effects to make their product “looks good,” and attract people to clink their advertisements. Those advertisements always so successful to gain people’s trust by using the “virtual” methods, and make people to buy their product.
As to see, those “virtual reality” is so familiars in internet nowadays. It is no debt that “virtual reality” can somehow satisfy human’s wants, and attract us. However, when we enjoy the life under the technology, we must need to be careful for the trope that it might appear. Remember, things attract might not be truth! Believe it or not, the technology we make out can fool us!
2 comments:
This is true that as technology advances, so does the way people communicate. Back in the day, before cell phones, texting, and instant messenger became popular, people would rely on simple home phones as a source of communication. I remember the days when my sister would be on the phone all day long, having hour long conversations with her friends, sometimes even talking to multiple people at the same time. Then along came instant messenger which allowed people to chat with multiple people simultaneously, so why the need to spend hours on a phone? Then came social networking sites, where people were able to give and receive comments as they pleased. But in a way, if you think about it, every form of communication, other then face to face, is virtual.
I also agree that most advertisements make products seem more attractive then they really are. Advertisements is just another way of virtual communication saying “Buy me!” Look at it this way. If you saw two pair of shoes that were practically the same, but one of them had a Nike sign on it, which one would you rather buy? Advertisements are doing the same thing, persuading people to buy one thing over the other. So I agree that technology such as advertisements can “fool us” into buying things we don't really need.
I like the title of your post—it is very clever. Also, I am glad to read you taking up some of the complexities of “virtual” and “reality” that we discussed in class. I urge you to confront a specific text, which could be another advertisement, website, video, audio, and so on to discuss this issue of virtual reality. You mention Facebook and MSN, so it would have been good to link directly to one of these sites and show us what you mean. I take your argument here to be that we need to be cautious about technology and not blindly accept its parameters; perhaps one of the best ways to do this is to take on a “virtual” technology directly. How does Facebook attempt to gain the user’s trust, for example? Try to be as specific as possible in these posts.
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