The class discussion was about the Second life and how does it affect people. Second life is a very interesting, new, and creative idea that was established in 2000. It gives you freedom of being whoever you want to be, which is impossible for some people in real world. You can do almost everything that you can do in the real life in there. You can buy things, interact with other live people, drive cars, go get a makeover and many more. Second life even gives you an godlike ability to Fly( which was a really fun thing to do.) In the class discussion somebody said that second life can help people to learn how to socialize, I agree with that. For example, somebody who is really shy in real life would never be able to go to another man or a woman and just start that conversation, but in second life he or she would easily do it, and hopefully one day it would happen in real life. As good as it look, second life can be addictive like drugs, smoking or alcohol. Sometimes people start to forget their real lives and just get into that game so much, that they even get a job in second life. People basically assimilate with their avatar(your character in the game).
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I argee with you, its a interenting. I had never touch it when i see it in the class, I feel that it can be more free. when you create a character, you can be more social than your real life. The last thing that i think if someone doing the criminal as we talked in class, that's awful....
I really enjoyed the discussion about second life especially when we got to see Germanas' avatar and experience first hand how second life works. I think that it can go either way as far as making someone more sociable is concerned. Yes it can help a shy, introverted person speak to other people and socialize but at the same time, you are not face to face with people, you are in your home in front of a computer. I feel that if second life is consuming a lot of your time then you are not spending enough time living your first and real life.
I think second life is the way of entertainment. As we discussed in the class, we can learn the social skill in the second life. However, I believe, people should aware the violence in the second life and don’t waste a lot of time in there, because is still not the real world we live. Over there, some information is faked.
From my point of view, Second Life is just an online game. The only different between it and others are there are no hunting monsters for money, and leveling, but chatting with others and living inside to get money. What do I mean by living inside is that players have to get a job and working on it to get money. Indeed, I don’t see any interest at it. If people want to chat they can chat at any of those CyberCommunalities, Myspace, QQ, AOL and so on. Also, people don't need to wait until others online then chat, because they can leave a messages. If people want to have fun, there are millions of 2D, 3D, and 4D online games. People also can meet with others from all over the world. Sometime, people can gain life experience, build up the knowledge of team work, knowing the culture of others, socialize, and realest. I don’t really know why people like to play Second Life.
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