Buffy's Unrealistic Reality

Well, I had never seen Buffy The Vampire slayer before last Wednesday in my Electronic Comm class, and it was a little different. The episode we saw was about an evil monster from hundreds of years ago who was scanned into a computer book database. He used his evil Jedi mind tricks to lure an unsuspecting high school girl (from American Pie) to fall in love with him in a plan that would ultimately, I'm sure, turn into global domination. He posed as a boy named Malcolm and she had no idea who he was, yadda yadda yadda

Relevance to the real world, it could happen. Meeting people on-line who are not actually who they say they are, is a very feared reality. With on-line dating sweeping the nation, it could happen to anyone who is looking fill an empty heart. On-line dating is a joke...or is it?

Just like in the show, in today's world so many people are reaching for love on sites like E-Harmony and others, it makes you think? I live my life one day at a time and with the motto you never know whats going to happen. True love could be found on an on-line database, but how would you ever know if you don't leap. I just cant imagine putting something as involved and consuming as love in the hands of Al Gore (inventor of the Internet...right). Never would I count out the possibility that true love could exist through an Ethernet cable but love is more than typing a couple of words to someone.

Love is the touch, feel, smell, and look as well as some construed thoughts, and although that all does come eventually, I'm sure, i need the 3D effect. I could never imagine falling in love via my computer monitor.

In relevance to the class, the episode shows how computer based communication can be as evil as it is good. And although i do love my Internet just as much as the next fellow or gal, i need more than a pre-chosen picture of someones good side and a personal profile they spent hours on to make it sound tempting to shoppers.