Tauree_DT

__ **Tauree Moten digiteen project** __ __ ** Habits of Learning and Managing Online Activity: Virtual Worlds ** __ __ ** Social Awareness ** __

Research

When people wake up and have an addiction with playing in their virtual worlds instead of waking and brushing their own teeth they may be brushing the teeth of their fake/unreal virtual avatar. Lots of people have an addiction with fake virtual worlds. In Korea during 2010, two parents took care of their virtual baby and allowed their own really baby to die. 1 (Guardian,2012) But people in Korea aren’t the only ones who have issues like this. We need to help people not get suck up into their fantasy world. Last year in Cisco’s Connected World Technology Report, half the students say that the Internet is more important than dating, cars, and partying. 2 (Daily News and Analysis,2011)Can you believe that? That’s not all that has been said. Every 1 of 3 collage students and professionals that were surveyed said that the Internet is pretty close to them. 3 (Daily News and Analysis,2011) That is a lot of people who love and depend on the internet and virtual worlds. But the internet and virtual worlds might not really help people in real life situations. For example you could talk to someone in a virtual world and think you know them but you really wouldn't unless you met them in real life.

Fact about virtual baby death found at: 1 "Girl starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game | World news | guardian.co.uk." //The Guardian home//. N.p., Friday 5 March 2010 12.03 EST. Web. .

Statistics about use of Internet from student’s/professional’s point of view found at: 2&3 "More people are choosing virtual over real world." //Daliy New and Analysis//. N.p., Published: Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011, 16:00 IST. Web. 10 Apr 2012. .