Thursday, March 29, 2007

HE SHE

Lewin

This is a very weird occurence and I don't really know exactly how I feel about this subject. On one hand, I believe Lewin truly just wanted to help people, but on the other hand he was quite deceptive, especially in the extent he went to, in order to achieve his target audience. The nature behind the deception is that he found women who needed help and posed as a woman that had gone through extremely traumatic times herself in order to help other women. I tend to feel that he is a good person for attempting to help these women at all costs, though he definitely was deceptive with some of the outrageous things he tried to make up, including the wedding and near death experience in particular.
Differentiating between real life and virtual reality should be extremely simple. There doesn't need to be warnings upon entering cyberspace, because it should be a given that virtual reality is not necessarily anything like real life. Communication over the internet is shaded in gray far more than reality is. Being able to see things, gives a sense of understanding that is totally taken away on the internet. Real life face to face interaction is the only way to know who you are actually talking to. On the web if you enter a random chatroom any one can be pretending to be anyone... which makes the web a place that is taylor made for deception.