I'd heard a lot about Second Life, but I had never checked it out until now. First, I went to tektek.org and built an avatar (looks nothing like me, of course). Then I went to Second Life, signed up and gave myself the name "Hawkins Mavendorf." I started the tutorial and spent about half an hour getting a body and then clothes, but the clothes wouldn't appear on my avatar, so I must have been doing something wrong. Anyway, it's a fascinating world, but I wouldn't want to spend much time as a "virtual self"; spending a lot of time pretending to be someone with a lot of other people pretending to be some other ones strikes me (personally) as a rather sad way to spend one's prescious time -- it seems to be a way for folks who don't like who they really are to make themselves into their desired self in virtual reality, instead of trying to find ways to accept and like who they really are. Second Life seems to be another drug that enables people to not face reality. Anyway, that's just me.
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