Cyber Space, Good or Bad?

"CyberSpace" a made up term created by science fiction author William Gibson in the early 80's, an effective buzzword, that when first thought up, no one completely understood what it was all about. Like anything to do with Digital Technology, CyberSpace deffinately has it's positives and negatives. We can communicate freely with hundreds of friends from school/college within seconds via websites such as "Facebook" and "Twitter", but what about when it comes too cyber bullying within young children, and videos of explicitness that certain ages should not be seeing?

CyberSpace can take us into new worlds, made up fictional worlds where we can take on second lives, other personalities almost even making your own dreams come true by building this other world. However we find today that even with all these magical and wonderful programmes online, how do we know when we are communicating with strangers on the internet, that theres not a completely different person sitting behind the computer screen?

The main range of people that end up using Cyber Space are "young adults", a group of the public who are creating and exploring themselves, trying to connect with who they are, and generate their own personalities. Whilst adventuring Cyber Space, you can usually find yourself interacting with all kinds of different people, you may also find groups of stereotypes aswell which at the stage of becoming a young adult, everyone wants to be part of. An exceptance into a group is every young adults dream, they then know they fit in, away from bullying and judgmental eyes. But what about when we get too close to people over the internet. Noone likes to talk about it, Cyber Sex, a hobbie that is constantly going on, wether people know whos on the other side of the computer or not. This is where real danger can come in. Do you know who your friends or family are communicating with online?

Overall. yes we can enter new worlds, vent our opinions and ideas, but are we communicating over Cyber Space more than we do in the real world? Will we end up constantly behind our computer screens? My only advice to give about the Online world is not too put so much information up on websites such as, Facebook and MySpace, you never know who might be reading.