More importantly, these pets can be good companions for your child and yourself – much safer than the real pets. As in case of real world, new trends crop up in computer simulated world every once in a while, and adoption of virtual pets is just one of the several recent trends which have taken the cyberspace by storm. From playing games to social interaction, this virtual world has it all. Taking that into consideration, it isn’t quite surprising that social networking profiles have become virtual identities of people nowadays. In this new world, a person gets to do everything that he would do in his real life but on a computer. In fact, virtual identity has lately become a medium of expressing oneself more freely and escaping the social constraints implemented by the allegedly self-righteous society. Much more flexible than the real life that we live in, virtual life offers a wide scope for defining oneself in the parallel world on the Internet. Lack of time in this busy world has tempted many people to explore the realms of virtual world – a parallel world largely based on computer technology.
