Revolution

With Internet comes a revolution. With revolution comes a change in fundamental rules. The virtual world overshadowed many users' physical realms as online gaming, blogging, or more conclusively, communication, are fed through an electronic box known as the computer. Essentially, a whole new electronic society began forming on the forefront of the revolution that extracted from the real society instead of coexistence.

Time passes and addiction feeds ambitious individuals who link the real and virtual societies in the monetary sense. Moral or not, a market was formed in between existence and lack thereof. Under the new concept of cloud computing, these individuals have extended their control over us.

As we rely more on computers and the Internet, naturally, more conversations are held through the same media, whether they be instant messaging or live chatting. How much of our daily communications have been redirected into online chatting?

There are points in time where I wanted this simple communication tool to not exist. With every inch of a second, I feel that not only am I failing to talk correctly, but I am also failing to hear with average precision. Additionally, without body gestures and facial expressions, I am not able to tell how a phrase was said, or in terms of the old society, 'typed'.

Naturally, under long-term association, writing styles and responses can change drastically, as do the expressions during chatting. Unfortunately, when responses from individuals become stoic and unresponsive, it is difficult to see whether the change had been natural to the prey or whether the victim had caused sufficient disturbance for the prey to care less. Or maybe the prey is the victim and the victim is the prey.

Have I done something wrong? Is this how others are treated? No one knows except the counter-party that fails to disclose anything at all. Despite condemning this sort of action, I exercise it as well up to a bound.

Posting and blogging can further worsen the situation. To globally inform others of your daily endeavors and extensively elaborating on it defeats the purpose of others asking about it.

"So I see you have failed your exam..."
"Yes."
"Was it really that hard?"
"Read it in my blog."

Moreover, it is not guaranteed that people would read it... or this.