Today, MUDs are used for social communities, educational forums, business meetings, and nearly anything else people have come up with. CMC in the form of online forums allow students to interact educationally outside of the classroom and from all over the world, something that was not available twenty years ago. CMC has eliminated the need for physical presence in business and academic institutions. Although there are potential downfalls, we must not ignore the obvious abilities that are now available to us. Real-time exchanges of textual messages are sent by participants.
MOOs eliminate the cultural and ethnic stereotypes that cause such a problem in everyday life.
The words are all that matter and biases because of color or heritage can be left out. A lack of user diversity is common to all types of CMC, especially MUDs and MOOs. Each user has the ability to take the role of several different characters. They create attributes and their characters develop them as the users interact with other players over the network. Some technology theorists, such as Clifford Stoll, believe technology is damaging our interpersonal communication.