Topic 1 - Second Life

In the first lecture the concept virtual games was discussed. Something called Second Life, which is a virtual reality game, is seemingly in the process of taking over the world! It basically involves people logging onto a site and creating avatars and the best thing is, you can choose everything about your virtual personality. Choose your own traits, hair colour and for the very particular, you can even choose your own genitalia. People are using this game to live a pretend life through a computer screen. You can buy and trade land, build houses and go to events thrown by other residents. Scarily, this is something that users are doing every single day instead of experiencing actual reality. It is just another reminder of how much technology is taking over in the 21st century.