Escape from Reality: An Analysis of Corporate Culture and Quest for Quasi-Relationships in the Virtual World

The world wars followed by Industrialization and subsequently by Globalization have restructured the livelihood of enormous people. Specifically, it has transformed the culture, lifestyle, family structure and traditions followed by the ancestors. This become as the significant reason that traditional joint family framework are dismantled and the Nuclear family perception has formed. People started to live in small groups and assemble together on particular occasions and other related family functions.

The fondness towards high standard of living and their race behind the materialistic desires up surged the culture of single parent and working parents. This destroyed the parent and child relationship. The loneliness set across the young minds leads them to anxiety triggered with depression.

Technology which is designated to soothe the depression caused by loneliness, as it progressive, in turn, it increased the crack between the relationships. People talk less to each other in reality but regularly post their views on social networks. This longing thirst for a virtual relationship made both their real and virtual world complex. This paper elucidates the impact of technology addictions and gaming affects physically and psychologically, the individuals and especially children i.e. the risk in virtual world relationships with reference to the text Ready Player one by Ernest Cline and Reamde by Neal Stephenson.