Even now, I have to work hard to foster real-life, real-time friendships, especially where we are actually physically in the same room together. And it isn’t because doing so goes against my own inclinations. It’s because everyone around me seems more plugged into gadgets than other people.

At least my kids still enjoy getting balls bounced on their heads, playing games in the backyard, and going to the park to swing on the swings. And soon they’ll want to ride roller coasters, something I can do in real life, but NOT in virtual reality (all those simulated rides just make me sick to my stomach).

Interesting blog. What’s all this voting stuff?

I’m with you on this–virtual reality would only make sense to me if I got to do something or be somebody I couldn’t in real life. I love the vampire/ werewolf online fighting game, even some avatar play, although neither of those are as good as the crayon physics virtual reality you were talking about…my point is that I enjoy playing fantasy and a real-to-life fantasy is even better BUT if I can actually do it in real life, like play with a ball–the virtual world is pointless.

I made myself dizzy trying to explain that.

Davida