Well the topic of the week
was virtual communities and the bond that it has with each support group involved
with in a certain community. In these virtual communities they can be an online
site or offline but also involved with where you are located in the world and
thing that interests you. The tool that I played around with Second Life was
kind of like that in many different ways. Well Second Life it was like a
virtual community and also like an online videogame based on the graphics in the
interaction. You had a bunch of people cars, villains and many other different
things walking around in these many different types of virtual communities that
Second Life had to offer. The communities that I went through were London
England, South Beach and haunted town which was pretty cool I thought. But
Second Life allows you to join groups and organizations but also it allows you
to chat with people in the virtual communities that you're walking around in
and it's like meeting new people online but in a virtual community.
I mean the purpose of
Second Life is getting to meet people online in a virtual community. This is
just showing that there are many other different ways to meet people online
besides Face book, MySpace and Twitter. Second Life allows you to walk around
and get familiar with many different virtual worlds and also communicate with
those people where it can lead from becoming great friends or even better
starting a relationship.
Well Second Life to me
was like I was playing in online videogame and meeting people in it. I went through
so many different virtual communities in the game and I found so many different
organizations and clubs that I could join and some of them were kind of
interesting to me. I also liked how people could be people, car or some type of
villain and that you could fly in the game which I had a lot of fun doing.
Second life to me had
it challenges in which I do not know what type of people I was going to meet in
this game because there were so many different characters in the game that were
kind of odd looking to meet but for me in the game I was just an ordinary
person walking around. Another thing that was challenging was there were so
many different communities to go in and explore I just had a tough time which one
would be best for me to explore in.
Second Life is just
another way for people to communicate online but in an online game environment.
They need to make it more interactive by which I mean have different things
involved in each of the virtual communities. But also they need to advertise
this Second Life game a little bit more because I never heard of it and its just
one of those new social networking tools that is brand-new to me and I think it
needs to be put out there so more people can enjoy it.
I really enjoy playing
Second Life because I like going through the different virtual communities and seeing
different characters in each of them but also interacting with different people
and the clubs and organizations that I got involved with or got invited to. I
was just an ordinary person flying around in different worlds which was a lot
of fun.
I agree it you that the game was difficult because there was so much anonymity with the avatars since they did not even have to be humans. You didn't necessarily know who you are talking to or what kind of person they are. I disagree with your feelings about the game not being interactive enough though because you could have your avatar do quiet a number of different things depending on the world you were in. I think it would have been interesting to be able to build world's though but I am not willing to pay for the game monthly in order to do so.
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