The Loss of the Real

I was assigned to read the article "The Loss of the Real". The main idea of this article focused on how in todays world it seems as if real life experiences and experiences with technology have to compete for people's attention. It was argued that outside of the real world there is a certain vividness that is designed to thrill people. This makes people want to engage more in Internet and fake experiences rather than face to face interactions. We are losing the real world because people don't know how to balance the real world and virtuality. A quote that interested me was,"Searching for an easy fix, we are eager to believe that the Internet will provide an effective substitute for face-to-face interaction (504)."
I totally agree with this quote. I do feel that others, along with myself try to find the easy way out of everything by just using the Internet. With doing this, we begin to lack personal experience since we have become dependent on Internet and virtuality. Internet experience is definitely not the same as face-to-face interaction. Another quote that interested was, "To this young woman, phone calls represented thenatural, intimate, and immediate. We build our ideas about what is real and what is natural with the cultural materials available." I can connect to this because I feel the same about phone calls. I agree that phone calls are more intimate and present more of a connection between two people because they can hear each others voices and are actually interacting with each other. I feel that people today just need to learn how to balance real life and virtuality and everything will be okay.
Two questions that  I would ask the author is how do you think the competition between real and virtual life can be ended? Do you fall for the vividness that the virtual life presents?