Second Life



When I heard of Second Life I thought to myself you have got to be joking! This is completly bizarre, why would you bother? get out in the real world and live your first life!! Second Life is basically an online community where you can be whatever you want to be- you create an Avatar, and that's "you" online. So you could be a Tiger, Vampire, Hooker, male or female regardless of your sex... This program includes all your normal day to day stuff but has it online.

When you sign up (and yes I created an account to try it but gave it up just as quickly) you create a character that you want to be... If you have a free account there isnt much to select from and not much you can do, but if you have a paying account you can buy things like bits for your gender- so if you're not happy with your size of equipment you can buy it bigger! You can also buy clothes and accessories to make your Avatar look cool. Once you have set up you can go exploring, visit cafe's, meet people.

There have been people who have met up online, got to know each other and get married over the Internet. Then they have organised to meet each other in real life and actually get married. I just thought that was so strange... how do you know if that person isn't a serial killer? or a rapist? how can you trust someone on the Internet? It just seems rather shifty to me.

And then when I heard that there was a male posing as a 14yr old female, I thought that was just sick! Alarm bells started ringing in my head when I heard that and it just made me wonder how truthful people really are on these sites and what are their motives?

I think that SecondLife is really just some shy nerdy guys creation of trying to make friends becuase they can't do it in real life. I think that this website really takes away the everyday experiences people could have instead of being online.