Is Virtual Real?

      Since time immemorial, interaction between people in a community is already a part of existence. Indeed, one of the natures of a human being is to be social. One cannot define to be who and what he is unless he is in communion with a particular locus or situation he is with. However, the usual concept of the term ‘interaction’ has become deteriorated on this days. As the world has become so advanced in technology wherein the social media is one among the many discoveries, the new era of development invades the human minds leading to forfeit the essence of interaction ‘per se’. What we consider real has seemingly become those that exist mostly to our very own ideal image. The tendency of this is that those virtual facts which are supposed to be unreal in the ‘here and now’ have been perceived to be the reality. We tend to visualize things based on our own gauge while refracting such to the beauty of nature in reality.

       Now a lot of applications available in the internet are offering us a lot of virtual realties, the most recent ones are what most young generation of today had enjoyed: the internet games. Not only with games but also other stuffs, videos, images visual effects and many more. With all these technologies, these aid us to materialize all our ideal pictures including the kind of environment, persons and structures we desire to see in the reality. We forget that we become so selfish enough to think that we can be the ‘mensura omnium’ or the measure of everything that exists akin to the conviction of the sophist, Protagoras. Be that as it may however, these discoveries on virtuality is not to be conceived as objectively evil also inasmuch as it has good effects also. This can be an avenue for some to express their real feelings if they can’t express it face to face.