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Toni Jambrovi
Doc.dr.sc. Romana aija
English Language Practice V
19.1.2015

How to live in the Real world and the Virtual world of Modern Technology at the same Time?
Human life during the second half of the twentieth century became faster. The number
of obligations, which a man had to fulfil during 24 hours had greatly increased. Still, human
lives were less chaotic and unsettled before the nineties and the appearance of internet, cell
phones and various social networks. In a quickened pace of life full of requirements that have
to be fulfilled as soon as possible, people are becoming less and less aware of objective
reality. It is getting difficult to orient oneself and estimate ones place in something that was
understandable to everyone. That something refers to our relationship with friends, to the
ways we meet partners with whom we want to achieve an emotional bond and it also refers to
fun time and how we spend our spare time. This is very important because a man has to have
something outside obligations to function normally and be satisfied with his or her life. On the
other side if we decided not to use modern technology we would probably feel isolated and
different from most of the people. Nowadays people are often facing the dilemma modern
technology or not?
A man is a social being and therefore cannot live alone. He/she needs friends. It is
normal for a human being to want to be a part of a group and to want to fit into society.

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People want to belong somewhere outside their family. In the past it was common for people
to have a few close friends and a little bit more acquaintances with whom they would gladly
be spending their spare time. Such friendships were not always perfect but they helped people
to differentiate good and bad things in people surrounding them. Today in the time of modern
technology people are beginning to look for friends online. It seems to them that people
online, whom they have never met, are better than those they are spending their time with. In
a lot of cases information put online by those new friends are not true. Strangers often
represent themselves to be better than they actually are. Such friendship often ends quickly or
we never actually meet those persons in real life. These days young people have often a few
thousands of virtual friends on social networks. These same people often dont have any
friends they spend their spare time with in real life.
How to realize an emotional relationship with persons of opposite sex? When you are
young and during your education you are meeting women each day in or outside the school
activities. That is the time when sympathies and first love affairs start. At that time we are too
young for serious emotional relationships and we are trying to understand which
characteristics a person we want to have an emotional bond should have. When it ends young
people are usually without a job. They dont have any money and spend most of their time at
home. At that time the possibility of meeting women online seems like a good opportunity.
Still not many actual relationships are realized this way. Such relationships are often virtual in
which lies are often present, or relationships without real, physical contact. Here also lies the
possibility of fake identities. To some people it even happened that when they were to actually
meet such women they experienced unpleasant situations. They would be disappointed and
the actual emotional relationship wasnt realized.

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Each man wants to spend some of his/her time having fun. When we were children
we experienced fun through playing. We often played with other children outside our homes.
Then, when we got a little bit older we were involved in some kind of sport activities in sport
clubs. Later on in it became boring or it got physically too difficult. Usually it is very difficult
to be the best at some sport in a club and that makes people disappointed. That is also often a
reason why people give up such activities. Today playing outside is replaced by computer
games and cell phones by even pre-school children. Teenagers and students today also cannot
imagine their spare time without computer games and cell phones. They spend many hours
that way without physical activity and interaction with other, real people. Sometimes they talk
about computer games even when they actually meet outside. They are heroes of a virtual
reality.
Modern technology (internet, cell phones and social networks) is trying to meet the
needs of people in a way that it is possible by the modern technology in creating a parallel,
virtual reality. In such a reality there are virtual friends and women. There we have fun by
achieving records in computer games. That is not a perfect way of meeting human needs, but
is one of options available. It is possible to live your life at a slower pace and still use modern
technology so that we do not feel isolated from other people. It is important to be modern and
to be familiar with modern technology, but still to be able to be satisfied with your life at the
same time. We need to determine the way we are going to spend our 24 hours and that is not
an easy task. Usually in the end there is a compromise where we combine modern technology
and our distancing from it. We usually distance ourselves from it after we get tired of all the
wonders of the modern technology. That is the time when we want to have contact with
people hang out, love each other, sometimes even fight and have fun in the real world.

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