Our New Era

You could even right now read old forum threads, see those people who left HeroesWorld for some reason and are unlikely to ever return, unlikely to be seen again. Also a kind of "dead" "profiles".
We, I think, are far from being pioneers, and not even the second wave; we got the internet full of pron sites, scum, pervasive Lurkmore, and other... crap) What is there to do?) And why is there no such question regarding real life? "If you want to be a pilot, be one"(c) and all that follows from it. I think it's also clear what this leads to — MMO addiction with fatal outcomes, lulz from disasters, selling your soul at auctions..) That's if we take examples that are not the most positive :smile43:
In general, wherever you give a weapon to an idiot, the effect is the same, just the playgrounds differ.

In my opinion, it's simpler to view the "virtual world" merely as a means of communication and obtaining information. This saves me from an extreme stage of addiction.

By writing a post on the forum, you are already in that extreme stage) since this is not just "communication" and "obtaining information" here.