What are the implications of living a life in a virtual world? Do people tend to drop out of normal society, lured into anonymous, pixelated interactions? Or is it that Second Life, and games like it, is allowing for users to not only be themselves, but to take on more desirable traits and apply them [...]
I wholeheartedly believe that Second Life is so self-contained, that outsiders are unable to simply understand all that happens. Moral panics have been occuring since the dawn of civilization; it’s no big surprise that the Internet, and more specifically for my own purposes here, Second Life, has been under the conservative microscope.
My reason for writing [...]
I’ve been in Second Life for almost 9 months, and it’s at this point in which i wonder where my life is going. I feel as though I am having a mid-[second]life crisis. I’ve begun to reflect upon my humble beginnings, because just as what happens in anyone’s first life, my past has had a [...]