Computer Mediated Communication: Is it Real or Unreal?

Day by day, the internet has grabbed the attention of people around the world. More and more people start to use the internet as one of their important source of communication. Before, if we want to communicate with people on the other side of the world, we had to make an expensive phone call or use the slow snail mail. However, today, we can just go to a cyber café, pay 3-4 dollars per hour …

…us. In CMC, we can lose our identities, or hold on to them. We can have meaningful experiences with it by being honest, or hurt people by being dishonest. We can be lost in its flashy colors, or we can take control. It is up to us to decide whether to do the good thing or the bad thing while using CMC. With this awareness we can shape the on-line future to our best ideals.