Presentation on Online Communities

In the reading "Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace" by Sherry Turkle, I discovered that the popularity of computer using is due to its similarity with watching TV. With the development of technology in the past decade, the virtual reality seems more real than 10 years ago. We can see our families and friends by msn through the web-cams, and we can go shopping on the Internet, it seems that the Virtual life has bring us convenience. Yet, the online communitites might bring us negative effects that we could not imagine. Such as the economic trap, there are so many people doing illegal things with the Internet. And we might be one of the victims next time. beside, some people take it so serious in the virtual reality and they see VR as their real life. this is very dangerous and some people might commit suicide due to the failure in the VR and we are going to discuss it in the presentation.