Who Am We?
By
Sherry Turkle

In reading “Who Am We?” I felt as if I am reading a analysis of a character both in real life and in disguised. It is a reading of psychoanalysis to be precise. Since the internet now offer several social gaming sites such as MUDs, people are addicted more than ever to simulate their fantasy into these game sites. Is it healthy? Of course not. Granted some sort of released or an expression is needed since we are human we are a social being and we need to express our feeling, our consciousness, our thoughts so on and so forth.
Some of the character in the article described how they are able to be someone else in one of these sites did not actually feel better about themselves. How could these ever be a vehicle to improve one social attitude or behavior?
For example, Stewart -23 year-old physics graduate student, whose life is centered in his laboratory and live alive of a hermit. Steward logged to MUD 40 hours a week, to simulate a life he could not imagine having in real life. Though he was a successful in his character as Achille in MUD, he did not feel the satisfaction of being Achille in the end. There are many characters in the Who Am we?, which I was fascinated in reading. As time progress, our live get more and more interwoven into the fabric of real and unreal unless we conscientiously remind ourselves to be who we are and appreciate what we have in our lives, in this present reality.