Reading and Question Answers

For the article, "Physical Interpersonal Relationships and Social Anxiety Among Online Game Players"the question about the "real me" I thought was the most interesting one. These "real me" people are defined by the person that they are on the internet, not by the person who they really are in their real life. These people have big problems figuring out who they really are in the real world. They have problems with social anxiety since they spend most of their time with their cyber friends rather than with the real people. They do not have stress or anxiousness when they are on the internet but they sure do when they are in real life situations. The "real me" for those people is the person who they are when they are on the internet.

For the article, "Wired to Another World" I thought the interesting question was the one that asked about addiction and the comparison of being addicted to gambling and video games. The answer was that those two addictions are similar because they are both strong in positive and negative rewards. Both also provide the user with pleasure and excitement. The difference is that the results of video game addictions are not as serious as for gambling. In gambling there is often the losing of a lot of money. The money lost in video games is the cost of playing the games.