Second Life is a online, social networking/ alternate universe program. You if you sign up for it, you get to join the site with a real or fake name, and then create a avatar which basically acts as you, in the vitual enviorment.
I have actually been on Second Life, and created an avatar. I walked around and even visited the Univestiy of Delaware Second Life Island. It was kind of cool but also it was difficult for me to figure out how to travel from one place to another and talk to people. It was very frustrating to be talking to someone and then they just run away.
I think that second life was created with the hope that once alot of people joined, it would become practical for people to use. People might use it to meet for business meetings when they were over seas and other things like that. I don’t think it has really acheived that. I think it is still perceived as a game, or an enviorment to explore. For I while I think it was something cool and people wanted to check it out. ‘ Is this the next big thing?’.
Even though it is still growing, I don’t think it will be the next big thing. People want things that help them in there lives. They want tools to help things work better, not something to replace or reprent the life they already have.
Example of SecondLife Avatar
