[Internet and everyday life]

Internet and everyday life

Introduction

In the present fast moving world, virtual communities is playing a major in everyday life with multidimensional affects. The social networking is a source of keeping people intact with other people in all terms of benefits and perks. Virtual communities have diversified advantages due their variety of applications. In the perspective of identity and social relation, virtual communities is a tool to preserve both, identity and social relations in far better way. These can also be maintain in the physical world, but the main difference in the physical and virtual world is the efficiency of virtual communities of saving time, body energy, power and economy. The interpersonal contact is strengthening with strong regard of social interaction through virtual communities with unique Cyber technology.

Discussion

Critical evaluation of the statement: virtual communities allow forms of identity and social relations that are unconstrained by our bodies, time and space

Virtual communities are emerging phenomena in the field of information technology, which encompasses almost every section of our society and sheer great impact on our everyday life. Along with many disadvantages of virtual communities there are a lot of advantages and benefits of online communication. The network of online social communication has certainly changed the lifestyle of the people beyond their imagination. However, the issue of vague identity has remained the main problem in the virtual communications but overall, it is shaping great ideas of communication which is strengthening the social relation with a great deal of love, affection and understanding. The maintenance of social relations never depends on the body energy; it just only needs a click of the mouse to interact with your social circle. The time of a person using effective communication is also preserve due to fast access of communication to those who are far away.

In terms of Identity

The value of identity in communication is very much important and it considers an original work to do. Its gives a person confidence that the person to whom he is communicating is an identity holder. It is a necessary tool for developing understanding and making sense good sense of communication. In the incorporeal world of the virtual community, identity is also vague. Most of the identity description which is given in physical interaction is not present in the effective communication. This depicts the major flaw in the understanding of an identity of a person to whom another person is in interaction.

In the physical world there is an intrinsic harmony to the personality, provides a convincing and suitable meaning of identity. The traditional norm in the physical world is one body one identity. There is no fear of facing a person in the physical world who is having multiple identities. Although, the self may be multifaceted and variable in excess of time and condition, the body gives a stabilizing security (2005). On the other hand the virtual world is quite different in all the perspectives of identity. It carries information rather than bodies. There is not any law exist which ...