Being Introduced to Second Life through the screening You only Live Twice was a real eye opener for me. I had never even thought that virtual interaction existed. How underground am I! I have thought about it happening and imagined it just like the next person, little did I know, I was being left behind and technology was going places. Where will it be when my children come along?
The main issue for me with Second Life, as great as the means of interaction and communication are, it is a sad escape for people to explore another life that they could only dream of. Their avatars would be the people that they envy and cannot be in real life. One light argue that it is an escape from reality, a way of diving into another world that has no limits, but I see it another way. I see it as a portal for peoples expectations of the satisfaction it should bring them get misled and the happiness they get from the game doesn't meet the happiness they feel in their real lives. Having said that I think it is an awesome game that goes beyond our reality but where does it end? How much further can reality be pushed to the back of our 'lives' and a virtual reality become our reality.
What I found interesting was the purchasing of realestate. Since when does someone need to buy virtual realestate? What do they do with it?
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