Sunday, November 28, 2010

Question 1: Discuss the impacts of virtual communication in dynamics and structure of real life community.

Virtual communication is a group of people sharing the same interests, feeling and ideas through the Internet or other collaborative networks. It define as social aggregations that emerge from the Internet when enough people carry on public discussions long enough and with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace. ( Techtarget, 2006)

In the virtual world, everyone have freedom to do their things they like. And there is no privacy too in the Internet. They can chat with their friends, shopping, paying the fees through Internet, writing Blog to express their feeling, playing on line game with friends and others. So, despite they have freedom and no privacy, the impacts of virtual communication in dynamics and structures of real life community exist in.

First of all, you can save much more time when you want to spread out your message to all of your friends, colleges. For example, a course rap is deciding to tell his whole class that tomorrow's class has been cancel. He just need to on his or her status, or, send email to his or her course mates. He can save the time and cost to SMS, calling his or her course mates.

Besides that, virtual communication can bring families or friends together across distances. Everyone can feel their distance is near if they keep contacting each other. Virtual communication includes those tools like MSN, SKYPE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER and others. They can use these tools to add new friends, chat with them, to contact old friends, discussing some business and others.

There are also have disadvantages of virtual communication in the dynamics and structure of real life community. Hackers can hack people's mail account, and then to do some criminal case and framed to the account owner. And, some people like to use MSN, SKYPE and these kinds of tools to add new friends to fulfill their lonely needs in their heart space. Although they have a long period with a stranger to have a chat, but they don't know who is the guy is, and yet, it may contain a risk to get to know a criminal.

Nowadays, everyone has a FACEBOOK account, some of the people like to post some statement. Those statements include the earth disaster is coming soon, some health viruses is spreading out, those new make-up or skin care products are the new. E-shopping is a new trend on the web, it is convenience to the buyers and sellers, and girls like to use a lot of money to spend on their skin care products, no matter the ingredients is including of what, they are just buy it and use it! After using these products, some of the people feel itchy or what. It is because the product is fake. And then sellers and buyers have been cheated.

As a conclusion, compare to virtual communication and real life, people are needed to understand that what is virtual communication and what is real life. And no addicted into the virtual world!

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