Re:ONE WORD FOR ALL OF Y'ALL (Score 1)

Why is it that when someone plays Baseball to the exception of anything else in his life, when "baseball is life, the rest is just details", when you choose the easy major because you're at school to play baseball, it's called a *passion*, but when it comes to something like EverQuest its considered a socially-debilitating addiction? Hell with that. Its a real passion, a real social network, with real people and real mingling of minds. It just happens to be in the cybersphere. I'd like to know when people are going to start waking up and realize that the cybersphere is becoming just as imortant a part of the human environment as the physical world. Like it or not, there are people beginning to exist in the cybersphere who put in their 9-5 in the physical to support that existance. What people think about it is essentially irrellevant because it's happening whether you like it or not. There are healthy communities, in EverQuest, of people who spend 40 hours a week at work and 40 hours a week interacting digitally. Eventually, many come to know their digital friends in the physical world, as well. Its all the same; the cybersphere is just another way for human minds to interact... "The computer is the most extraordinary part of Man's technological clothing: it is an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it the whell is a mere hula-hoop." - Marshall McLuhan