Getting Hold of Cyber-Psychology
What is
Cyber-Psychology?
Cyber-psychology is the study of people's behavior in cyber-space.
Cyber-space
is an environment created when you enter the internet. Therefore,
cyber-psychology would be the study of a person's personality while
he/she is part of the cyber-space world. Cyber-psychology looks at the
change in a person's normal behavior once this person gets online and
starts communication via internet.
But alot of times, people
find their online personality to be similar to that of their natural
personality. While on the computer people are able to go to different
pages of interest and communicate with others who share that same interest.
People accessible by the internet can be located anywhere on this earth.
You can talk to a person in China or any overseas country. These people do
not know who you are and you can be a new person while communicating with
them. Cyber-psychology seeks to understand people's change of character
once online.
What are its principles?
I think that the underlying principle of cyberpsychology is to evaluate
and undeerstand the psychological aspect of cyberspace, to see how the
cyberspace community affects the human mind and it's present
characteristics. Every characteristic of the human mind is expected to
show as a property of the cyberspace world. Cyberpsychology recognizes
cyberspace to be just like the mind and it can manipulate as well as
guide. Cyberpsychology deals trying to understand the effect of the
cyberspace world on human minds.
Who would be
interested in it?
I feel that it would be safe to say that anyone would be interested in
the Internet. I say this for the reason that that the Internet is so
vastly structured that it accomadates the interests of almost any kind of
personality.
What are its directions and topics?
Just like psychology has a wide range of fields, so does
cyberpsychology. Cyberpsychology gears toward looking at individual as
well as relationships through the Internet. It can also serve to
understand better the cyberspace community as a whole. Cyberspychology
directs it's attention to helping people understand their own present
personality so that their online personality and traits will be more
understanable and explainable.
What is virtual reality?
Virtual reality is "almost real",but not quite. Virtual reality is the
attempt to create what looks like a real 3D world when looking into a 2D
screen or monitor. It is what some people would call fabricated reality
or reality simulated on the computer. But it's just simply creating what
seems like a real world.
What is the relationship between cyberspace and the mind?
The relationship between cyberspace and the mind is probably the most
vital source for the creation of the cyberspace community we have now.
It was the mind that created cyberspace and in return, cyberspace pleases
the mind. And now, in an extent, the mind depends on cyberspace to help
it expand.
What is the significance of clicking on a link?
To answer this question, we must first look at what the spirit means to
us, as humans. To me, the spirit gives a person life. Without our
spirit, we wouldn't be able to do anything or go anywhere. We would be
dead. Clicking, in the cyberspace world, would serve the same functions
as the spirit would a person. Clicking gives life to your cyberspace
environment and moves you from one place to another. Once on the
internet, a person has to click in order to expand his mind and
thoughts. If one chooses not to click, for some reason, that person is
limp in the cyperspace world.