Second Life or GET A LIFE!

Welcome my followers,

This is my second last blog, and today we are looking at ‘Second Life’. Now this phenomenon is very new to me. If you are unsure of what it is I hope to enlighten you to a ‘whole new world’.

  Firstly I assume you are sitting at a desk/table probably at work thinking ‘I really need a holiday’.

Now imagine instead of going on Facebook and feeling sad that EVERYONE is going on holiday instead of you, you clicked your mouse and HEY PRESTO you were on holiday??

My ideal holiday

Anyway, back to you at your desk taking a holiday. In Second Life you can, it’s just a click away. First you get to sign up, and then you make yourself an avatar. Your avatar can look however you wish it to look – your dream body shape, your dream partner, whatever you wish it to be. The next big decision is where to go? Like the real world you have a choice these include beaches, Sydney, mountains and everywhere in-between. Let’s see someone on holiday

So you now see what I am talking about, no queues, driving to the airport and eating airline food – because you FLY. Cool huh?

My non- Second Life Avatar

So these avatars that I spoke about, I am sure that now you are thinking how do I sign up? Well as I said you have an avatar that you design. You get to dress it up and sometimes you can also buy the clothes in the real world that your avatar wears. Is that great? Or does anyone else think it’s kind of creepy and weird? Oh you must buy genitals for your avatar too. Don’t want to forget them or you can’t have sex with the great lifeguard on the beach that you were dancing with. Yes, you can have sex on the beach once you have them if you so wish ( I think). If you want to keep it real you can even go to a birthing clinic and have a baby. I am going to show you how ‘real’ it is just because I was fascinated by it. Don’t click if you don’t want to watch, but the movies on TV are more realistic.

Now that you have seen that a few more things you may need to know. You can buy real estate, go to university, shop at the Apple shop, and don’t forget you will still probably need to go to work there.

Also Charities feature

This community has many things going for it. They have beauty pageants (see zombie link below), forums, blogs and many video clips. People have set up businesses in Second Life and are able to make real money in the real world from this other life.

Zombie Beauty Pageant And More

In other words, Second Life is exactly that, another life away from your ‘normal or regular’ one. So how real is it? I think that for the people in this other life its very real for them. For people like me who lead very full lives now it’s a crock of nonsense. Seriously is the real world that bad? Come on we had Big Brother that gave us the bum dance, Master chief that is encouraging us to eat more high fat/calorie food and let’s not forget Survivor who taught us all how to be nasty back stabbing liars… Who wouldn’t want to be part of this real world?

That was very real to those people who were locked in the house together, but to those people outside in the real world it was either great or just plain stupid. These groups didn’t have to work but they did have to partake in ‘challenges’ for food and privileges. Their Big Brother world was separate from the outside world and they produced whatever persona they wished the public to see. So the differences between Big Brother and Second Life are similar in many ways. Would I sign up to either? NO, I prefer to feel the sun on my face and the sand between my toes. I would love to change my body, skin colour and hair colour regularly but it that’s not real. The only consolation is that I can go to the gym and lose weight, and go to the hairdresser and change my hair colour. Well until next time…..