Cyber Culture

At the age of five, I started playing videos games on Sega Genesis. Since then I have evolved with the gaming community. My first experience of a cyber culture would be Xbox live. Through Xbox live I met other gamers that shared similar interests. I made new friends that lived anywhere in the world through Xbox live without ever seeing them. I then moved onto play Final Fantasy XI online. Final Fantasy XI is a MMORPG, massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Final Fantasy XI had players all over the world join forces to accomplish goals in the game. Well in the process one is bound to meet new people that grow to be good friends. I played FFXI with a few real life friends but there were some people that I met in FFXI that I viewed to be just as good as a friend without ever meeting them. I then started playing WoW, World of Warcraft, about three years ago. The cyber culture that I encountered here was huge. I joined a guild that had 100 people that I would talk to everyday that would be willing to help out in any way they could. Every night my and 39 other people would join together to accomplish large difficult goals in game. The people on WoW introduced me to Ventrilo which is a voice communication program. With Vent we could talk with each other and this allowed stronger bonds to form between myself and those that I met in the game. Through WoW I have met and become good friends with those in Texas, California, Alaska, Canada, Europe, Russia, and even Australia. Some of these people I talk to every day. They are just as good of a friend to me as any friend I have made in real life. I have had a huge experience with some different cyber cultures and I am glad that I have experience all of it.