Second Life Blog

In our lab today, we are exploring the virtual world of Second Life. Second Life begins with creating an avatar of your choice to express yourself, and thereafter you can enter different destinations. The destinations are formed into different categories such as "what's hot", "beaches" and "clubs", each suited to fit each avatars style. Within each of these destinations you can interact with other avatars in the same destination and do different activities.

Above, is a screenshot of a club destination called blackhearts café and London city destination where other avatars are dancing together and chatting. A lot of the avatars use Second Life as an online dating medium. The content said between avatars is not filtered and could be offensive to some individuals. The graphics are very realistiI personally find this software very "laggy" and therefore can be frustrating at times. I would not intend on using Second Life regularly, as it is not of interest to me, although it is entertaining to browse and understand the idea of this virtual world.