VIRTUAL CULTURE

Virtual culture

 Virtual culture is that has emerged, or culture is emerging, from the use of computer networks for communication and (HORN, S. 1998). It is also the study of various social phenomena associated with the Internet and other new forms of network communication, such as online communities, online multi-player gaming, and text messaging. (JONES, S., (ed.) 1997)

And Students are the biggest participant in the virtual culture. Now days it is common to take online college classes, students do not even have the time to attend class. In 1960 or even 1990 it would have been crazy to consider taking a class and never going. In schools, students are more dependent than ever on computers to accomplish their homework; the next generation of young people is defined loosely as people who have done most of their growing up in the first decade of the 21

These are the people who never had to sit down and learn how to use a computer, text or send an email, the people who learned to set up email and social network accounts while they were learning life skills, essentially making the new technology part of their lives from the beginning. And now let ’stake were it is going in the future.]Web 2.0 is a term coined in reference to the second version of the internet. (HORN, S. 1998).

WEB 2.0 is an interactive system, such as the touch screen of an iphone turning web from a merere search tool into a versatile and multifaceted platform of communication, via the media of social networks and companies like “YouTube” and “Twitter”.

 When using a social media such as Face books or MySpace you have to provide information about yourself. Let look at the information that a user might provide. Some photos of their selves, photos of their friends, name of their home town, name of their school, include their instant message screen name, linked to their blog, e-mail address, included videos, included their cell phone numbers, post their first and last names on publicly accessible profiles

 If a virtual criminal wanted to steal some money from your account all they would have to do is go you your face book and get your email. Then say it is Gmail, when the virtual criminal finds out it is a Gmail they just go to Gmail and press the “lost pass word” link the next page asked them to provide answers to some security questing for example. What is your home town, your two best friends and what your favorite pet.

 So the cyber criminal goes to your MySpace page finds your  two best friends from your top 8, your home town in listed on the left and in your pictures there is your picture of your favorite pet. Next they get in to your email and do a search for checking account and let’s say it is Bank of America the virtual criminal goes to the bank of America website and choose the lost password option and has your password sent to them by email now they can get in to your bank account and have your money transfer to their account. We can say that technology has officially become our culture; we are becoming, more and more of a virtual culture every day. Everyone is evolved in the virtual culture from taking an online class to texting on your phone to banking.

                                        BY JAMES CATHERINE