Second life is by far one of the most innovative methods of cyber communication. It basically creates all of the aspects of personal identity that the players want to incorporate, the same as in Facebook and MySpace, in addition to the 3 Dimensional re-creation of real life events, places, and people as decided by the users. Aside from providing the creative tools, the actual creators of Second Life really don't have much involvement in this cyber world. Every character, building, and fantasy island is entirely the creation of the users. Like Wikipedia, this can also be considered User-Generated content but in a different aspect. Second Life gives users the opportunity to relive a special moment, recreate their first lives, or simply just live a whole different identity if they so desire. But like every other cyber community [or real one for that matter] user-beware! there is a great deal of in-your-face corruption. A large underground sex industry is building within this cyberworld, trading both cyber and real money. This of course can be seen with practically every cyber community on the internet now a days, but in my opinion it's a lot more shocking to see it live and in 3D. Despite it's flaws, if you steer away from this, you should be able to enjoy quite a good time trying to navigate through it's twisted recreations of real world places and meeting new and interesting people [despite the psychos!]... lol
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Second Life Summary
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I do like the idea of meeting other people, maybe even meet people who speek greek. It would be good practice for me since I do put it in my resume. I can see how the website can harbor sexual predators and even be an underground sex industry, but thats something that the users and authority should look into and stop before it gets any larger and out of control. Other then that it sounds like fun to become someone that you havent.
K
Second life is a completely different online community than some other ones like myspace or facebook. People create their own character in this community and start to build more things for them to live and social in this community like just playing video games in a 3D space. Second life is just an online social community that seems more real than other communities that based on words and pictures. Since it is not face to face conversation, people can say and act in whatever ways that they feel comfortable. It is really a second life for some people.
Indeed, Second Life is a Online Game that there is a beginning but ending. However, it has a little bit different form all the Online Games that I have been play, there is not hunting for money, killing monsters for level, fighting for Name and place. On the Second Life, there is nothing but people. Everything are building from players. Players have power to do everything. Even thought people are free to do anything in the game, people are freedom less. Think about this; the NPC or owner will have a file marking whatever you are doing in the game. They are watching you all the times whenever you on, whatever you did. IS IT THAT FREE?
i think its a little creepy that people create lives and live them online. in my opinion it is different from facebook or myspace where you just express yourself.
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