Did we open Pandora's box?

As much as I love the internet and sometimes social media, I often wish everyone would just stop using it cause, I feel we as humans have become more involved in the online world than the real world... Since I don't think the internet is ever going away would the internet be Pandora's box???

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Redstar · 36-40, M

Probably.
I can see us heading down a very dark path (and not in a cool way), as people "live" more and more in the online world, with augmented and virtual reality seeping deeper into our lives, allowing people to just ignore [i]actual [/i]reality.
There was something on tv recently, someone was living in a small crappy apartment but they were happy because they could go into VR where there's all this huge, beautiful open space and treating it like that was just as good as the real thing.
Too many people already don't care about what's real... for some reason, fake is good enough 🙄I will never be able to understand that. I do understand escapism but this is just getting absurd.

Lucygal23 · 26-30, F

@Redstar exactly I can see us all living in a fake world like they do in the matrix.