Playstation Home

PlayStation Home is a free service on the new Playstation 3 console which allows the user to create their own personal 'avatar' and play out their life in a virtual world. Each user has their own house and the fully interactive service allows them to talk to thousands of other ps3 users. There are a number of moral issues which are raised by this service, such as whether people in the future will be able to live thier lives without leaving their own home if this trend of converging everything a person needs into one system continues. There is also the issue of whether young people will lose their social skills if they favour virtual interaction over face to face contact, this could lead to all sorts of problems within society and the increasingly sedentary lifestyle would increase obesity levels hugely. Personally i believe that the thought of people living without leaving their homes is scary and could put serious strain on the human race's development. It would also mean that large companies could control people's opinions and views as they would be able to moderate what news the general public were given.