Post 9: Reasons Behind Why We Love the Virtual World

The advancement of technology development gave a great impact in the field of technology. Various application and gadgets where made along to the growth of technology. Besides the continuous invention of gadgets a virtual world was born. A virtual world is classified as the opposite of reality, you represents yours self as one of the characters in the game and controls it.

Many people this days where encourage in playing computer games and indulge their selves as part of that game that develop connection in their real life personality. Computer games, internet, or media evolves throughout the years that cause a great outcome in changing of one’s living. Based on my experience, I was comparing the beauty of anime in a real person and started liking anime guy characters instead in a real one. It helped me in positive and negative way, in a positive way because I learned a lot of lessons and in a negative way because of being addicted that cause a bad result in my schedules. There are still a lot of reasons why people where influence in the virtual world.

Searching for the explanations, I came a crossed an article written by Liu Yun called “Why do we love Role-Playing Games --- Human’s Original Need of Presence”, where it discussed about the importance and factors of presence that are found in role-playing games.

“All in all, the original reason of human needs about presence can be divided into two main reasons: 1. the human curiosity; 2. the human’s desire of control”.

On this article, discussed the meaning of presence in the connection of technology in people lives, is the illusion of the media users that a mediated experience is not mediated defined by Lomband and Ditton in their article about “TheConcept of Presence”. 

      Escaping the reality was one of the major reason why they embrace the beauty of a virtual world. They leave their problems, loneliness, stress and negative emotions in reality and enter the virtual world in order to see the relaxation and happiness. It state also in the article written by Michelle Castillo called “Study: Virtual Reality personas InfluenceHow You Act in the Real World”, where it talked about the usage of your own avatar or character’s personality in the game that applies also in your own interaction in real life. 

      Overall, I realized that being carried away in using the game character in game influence your attitudes for communication. So we must balance the usage of playing games and build a defensive wall to avoid the effect of using different personality.