My look into some new media

This swelling popularity of social groups such as facebook and myspace to online dating and video gaming has opened new doors to a new world that is growing at an alarmingly fast rate. New technologies have only gave people the ability for instant gratification but has also created a social crowding around their own interests. Instead of going to the park to play with friends and potentially meet others who differ from you and may teach or learn from your perspectives, people are logging on and consolidating to their own feelings and interests. Groups on facebook, such as a hockey team who now only converses with their own kind, or own friends who share their same ideas and goals. The real world is now being emulated in every way in the virtual world. I recently came upon a website called "secondLife" whose moto is "your world-your imagination.