Cyberculture

I would have never thought that almost everyone in the world that uses technology would be categorized into cyberculture, until reading "Why Cybercultire?" by David Bell.

Cyberculture is more than just using the internet and other technologies. We use these things to intereact with each other and we form bonds online. We create terminology that is used online, such as abreviated meanings, like "lol (laughing out loud)." And this online terminology eventually makes it way out into the "real" world. People start using online terminology in everyday life, and I have noticed that it has become more prevalent in recent years.

"Sitting at a computer logged into the Internet, for example, we are constantly clicking between the embodied sensations of staring at the screen and typing and the disembodied dream of surfing cyberspace as uploaded consciousness, but also connecting to other stories, other images and ideas-for example, ideas about the "world wide web" as a free source of information on an infinite multitutde of topics, or ideas about the new forms of connectivity between people that the Internet has provided."

This quote from the arcticle says it all. The Internet has opened up a whole new world for us to become a part of. A new culture where everyone is accepted and is just as important as any culture in the material world.