When I read the article, I kind of concern about the following part ”we lose interest in ongoing conversation with phantasmagoric being we had never met in person, I don’t really care to converse with you.”I figure out that the new technology of the internet reduce our intention to communicate with interpersonally in the real world. However, one of the main purposes of building up the internet is to help people on communication. However, because the internet offers human an easy way to communicate, it makes people addict in or rely on the technology to communicate. As a result, it reduced the people’s intension to communicate in the real world. When we look at the people in the third world country, we will found out that people who live in those countries, have very close interpersonal relationship even thought they don’t have hi-tech equipment to help them in communicate with each other.

In author told us that she has experienced that she depends too much on the internet. In many countries, the young generations use the internet to communicate to others as a habit; I lead them to lose the skill to communicate with the people in the real world. They get far away from the society and eliminated from the real world. In my opinion, internet is not a bad thing or a negative word, unless you use it probably and it should not affect our real life. Since in our world, we cannot get rid of using internet, we pay our bill form the internet, we work thought internet and get information from the internet. We should spent more resource from the government to teach the young generation how to use the internet properly. As the author said in the article, she recalled some good memories from using the new technology.

In my last word, I consider technology is a thing we use that, but should not depend on that.

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The main idea of the two articles is talking about the evolution of internet technology break down the boundary of race and ethic; it builds up a platform for communication between different nations. Therefore we should not underestimation the affect of society because of the power of cyber. For instance, the form of economic, politic and education can be altered because of the internet. Even more, the quality of our life will be improve due to the convenience offer by the internet.

According to the first article, many company use the graphical and video which display the racial and ethnic difference for their advisement on the internet. There was an ads which make me impressive is the Coca-Cola’s one. The picture show people from different race hold their hand together and sing. The other one which a also like is the one from IBM. In that ad, people from different nations “say” IBM with different accent. These facts giving strong evidence that indicates because of the internet, the distance of every people getting closer regardless of different age, gender, race and ethic. In the internet, while we know more friends thought weblog such as fackbook and friendsters, making discussion thought the forum or discussion board and watching video from youtube. It help us to know more about the facts from different countries, communiticate with different people with different nationality and provide different views on a specific issue by people from different fields. As a result, it breaks down the limit between different people. Therefore, in the first sentence of the article, the writer states a statement “there is no race. There is no gender. There is no age. There are no infirmities. There are only minds. Utopia? No, internet.

The level of freedom of speech and the flowing of information on the internet is what we have never seen in the history. Besides, the MUD is getting more and more famous in the internet. After I have read the second article, I consider that it is a good idea to add @race properties in the MooScape. Instead of assuming that every people in the MooScape is white, It can make the virtual world become more realistic and wilder the range of interaction.