Can the internet rescue the values of the mankind?

The other day I was walking by a fruit store, and I saw an old woman buying grapes with his grand daughter (I guess) , , but the laddie didn’t spoke our language, she was talking in Quechua (a native language here). The costumer didn’t understand a thing that she was saying, and he was loosing his mind trying to explain the woman the price of the grapes, but she didn’t understand it, and begun to cry out loud.

People around her, instead of helping her, begun to scream at her, telling her that she must go away cause everybody else has staff to do including buying fruit in the same store.

That was the moment!!! I saw the reaction of the people and I started to miss my online friends, and I noted that my online friends are always there for me, and when I need help with something is not necessary that the people that I’m asking for help knows me. This was the first thing that I saw clearly in my head that day, and was the start of days of comparability  between the real life society and the virtual one.

Here are some of my thoughts about the good things of the internet in the actual society:

In real life people act in a very agocentric way, where all that matters is the money and the image that he projects. On the internet people doesn’t have to act like that because there is no reason, in real life society people ask people to share wealth, on the internet you allways ask to share knoledge.

There are to many things that are missing now on society, like the willing to help each other, but in the internet you are always a part of the community, and there is always the willing to help anybody, makes you feel important and makes you feel better about your knowledge without the pressure of being asked for help, you only help the people that you want when you want it.

Another thing that is missing is the capacity to share, that’s because most of the  things that we need in the real society are material, but on the internet is not the same, we share information, the only thing that we spend on the internet is our time to share our thoughts, knoledge or feelings.

Didn’t you notice that when we meet a virtual friend on the real life you feel like you know him and you are the oldest friends???, That’s because you have the same interest or you have one thing at least in common. You know that person in a different unconventional way, inside out, because the first thing that you have to deal with him is his/her personality, and not the way he/she looks.

A few weeks ago I started to play a game called World Of Warcraft, is a wonderful game that confirms the values that I mentioned earlier, the game is about a caracter that you create in a virtual game, with your own personal touch, and there I saw that the game encourage people to be friendly and to be helpful  no question asked before you do it.

There are so many games on the internet that gives you the oportuniti to talk with a lot of people from all diferent countries, and you don’t have to know this people personaly to create a bond that goes beyond material stuff, that’s the most beautiful thig about this gigantic web of information. Depends on us to take advantage of this or just ignore what’s going on around you. Use your window to the universe, let the friendship grow with all kinds of people, and finally feel better about yoursef, after all…since we have the internet we are not alone anymore.