I think it is just becoming another type of reality that we don't really know how to deal with yet. Thesse are all real people involved, with real feelings at stake. A lot of the people who are out there experiencing cyber romance, are putting a lot of heart into it, being more honest than they would be with someone they had to see face to face. Angela T. Well, video conferencing is still not too popular, however, it is picking up very fast as the speed of the internet is also growing fairly rapidly. Nilesh More and more technology scares me as well.
Virtual reality is especially scary.
Just the name of it suggests a unreal reality which seams real. It would be very easy to get sucked into virtual reality. Instead of dealing with life, which requires work, people would be able to spend all their time dealing with virtual reality. Computers were addictive when I was a teenager, virtual reality would be even more addictive. Instead of just looking into a computer screen people could actually have experiences in all 5 senses.