Nowadays it’s hard to distinguish what is real and what is not. The word virtual is when something gives you aspect of reality but in ‘reality’ is not a real material. Anything virtual to me tries it’s best to connote realness but in all fairness isn’t real at all i.e. the pictures of maps which show out what the earth is meant to look like from above. Ideally the picture is what the earth looks like from that distance but one, it isn’t the earth itself and two, it’s not the real depiction of what the earth really looks like.
Now more than ever people are speaking to each other on the web and this is known as the virtual community where you are in reality speaking to someone but as it’s only virtual you are able to be anyone you want to be; just like the characters in video games i.e. the Sims.
In the game the Sims you are able to make these people do anything the average person is capable of doing like working, shopping, maintains a house, having children but the reality is that no matter what they do they are still virtual characters who don’t really exist.
a picture of the game 'The Sims'
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