So....a lot of you guys tag events, that did not happen in the internet, as "real life".
But, doesn't that make everything else, that somehow happened in the internet, "unreal"?
It always confused me how others seperated their life into real life and virtual life.
We all know that the virtual world is affecting our "real" life, many real systems are running via computers with a database, we order books virtually and receive them in reality.
All of us on LJ, we're just nicknames with a unique ID in a database, stored in a server that is located in San Francisco. We might not know each other, but we could be listed above or underneath the other in a table for users, so close, yet so distant from each other and it's unlikely that we ever meet, neither virtual, nor real.
We meet friends in the virtual world and sometimes we decide to meet them in reality.
So where's the boundary? Where does the virtual life stop and where begins the real life?
And then what is Virtual Reality? XDD okay, that's something totally different *cough*
A chat can't be unreal, because talking with someone on the other side of the world simultaneously is almost the same as having a conversation via telephone.
Another method is writing letters, which takes more time and is not an instant messenger, but it's close to a chat and it is REAL.
x_X I'm confusing myself right now.
Anyway, these thoughts occurred to me when I wrote a comment on this "racist bastard".... *rummages through a shitload of tabs*...erm
here.
Yeah, that person is all talk, needs a punch in the face AND needs to experience in "real life" what kind of reaction she'd get if she would show that icon to the humiliated people.
I didn't read her entire text before commenting.
Said people would beat her up before she finishes her speech XD
But the protest against her icons are real, even if they're only happening in the internet.