PlayStation Home is an in-built feature of the Sony PlayStation 3 console which offers players the opportunity to have an 'online life'. It gives the opportunity to live out various aspects of real life virtually and a chance to meet new people who are playing out their 'virtual lives'. The console allows the user to create their own 'avatar' with personalised features modified to the user's specifications. There are various aspects of real life in PlayStation Home, for example, every user will have a house to live in which they can decorate and make adjustments to as they please. Then there is the social part of PlayStation Home where one can meet other 'Home' players who are online and have a virtual conversation with the use of text boxes.
A question as to whether young players social skills will be affected by this feature has been raised. It is thought that this online social interaction will be the way young learn to interact as opposed to meeting new people in person and interacting face to face.
This is also thought to be yet another step towards one ultimate home entertainment system. This is the idea that with all the features available on one console, one has little need to leave the house, which is potentially very damaging to society and highly damages social skills. Some even blame the revolutionary new media technologies as a chief reason for increased obesity worldwide.
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