Just how real is the Net?

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Like Meer said, I can see why people would go offline for somethings, and that there may be portions of the population who stay completely offline. I just see a huge difference between reality and The Net. Like, in The Net, colors are brighter, smells better, sounds more crisp, but something in people would obviously feel alienated in such a perfect place. On the other hand, I can see this sort of lifestyle getting addicting very quickly. It'd be like being high all the time. A place where everyone is attractive, though probably not charming. Where even the sex feels better because the pleasure is being sent straight into your brain. It'd be both unnerving and addictive. I assume like a lot of psychedelic drugs.


I can see how some people, like today, would forsake the Net for the reason that it is better than reality. And I can see how many people would spend nearly all their time in the Net. And I like how polarizing the two worlds are to each other. That people want to spend time in this perfected world, but need to spend time in a lackluster reality too. I can imagine people walking down the real-world streets, pulled in on themselves and looking around as if reality was less real than what they experience online.