Virtual worlds create oppurtunities to simulate a lifestyle for themselves they would not otherwise have. If I decided I wanted to be a pirate with a beard, I can make this my alternate reality on websites such as SIMS and SecondLife. For people like David Savill who uses the website Naughty Auties for people with different forms of autism where they can have social interactions with other people with similar conditions and find out information about their condition.
One of the problems I have seen in the news involving virtual worlds is that some men and women can get extremely addicted to living in a virtual world. Last month on Dateline, the addiction to virtual worlds was covered. Men and women who spent 18 or more hours at their computers just to maintain living their virtual reality. Even during the recession (No Budget, No Boundaries: It’s the Real You article)people are spending lots of money they dont have in order to maintain their avatars.
In the future I think virtual worlds would be similar to the movie Surrogates, where people were able to stay in machines at home and live through their "surrogate" body. I think that would be cool.
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