I spent four weeks in Second Life , attempting to understand my identity in the virtual world. I found that second life was hugely entertaining, parts of it were scary, but as you'll discover from my diary below there was never a dull moment.
The best thing I taught about Second life was its main strength which is its user generated content . The content is at a high level at times and most of it is created by residents, but like in the real world most of it is junk on walls. Personally I didn’t really care for it.
I also found that without members second life would not exist because most of its content has been built by its member allowing them to build objects, industries and communities that would have never been there otherwise.
I discovered that everything in second life was one click away which made me interact more with it. This was because it had more than enough content that I found interesting and related specifically to me. This links back to people helping the program because without people added their own person touch not everyone could have been catered for.
In conclusion, my feelings on Second Life is I found it to be a form of escapism. I enjoyed exploring and talking to people from different countries and aloud me to literally live a ‘Second Life’ in the online world where I could do the things that I can’t do in the real world like flying.
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