Material the Life in such a way specified (from the English; German: "„real life "“, occasionally also "„meat life "“, about: "„"“) one uses fleischliches life in the computer scene as term for the life of humans outside of its activity in a group of gleichgesinnter computer-interested.

It originates originally from on-line game of roles scene and for example by the users of Multi user Dungeon for the demarcation of the purely virtual identity in the game of roles for the material identity of the player is used. Today the term is used by each kind of computer users, in order to refer to the physical world of clarifying about in order whether humans, who were over Internet met already personally.

Straight one in discussions and in Chats is referred with this term always connections outside of the only digital identity. Into the Chats often the abbreviation is used "„RL "“.

The term is in as much paradoxical as it distinguishes apparently a material life from a virtual or unreal life. However activities and kommunikative document, which take place in computer-based media, are naturally just as material as other activities also. Particularly Geeks and Nerds use "„material Life "“therefore often ironically, in order to point out that many activities at the computer, and/or in the CyberSpace have, often nearly no relationship with purely physical things.

See also

• Net culture
• Internet craze
• Virtual operational readiness level

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