Do you ever wonder that life could be very perfect? Or, do you ever wonder if you could change what you do not like about yourself into something that you eagerly dying for? I wish I could but I doubt it. But you can definitely change it in the virtual world called Second Life. Basically, Second Life is an internet-based virtual world. You can create an “avatar”, in which it represents yourself in Second Life, or also called as alter ego. Through this virtual world, the users could interact with each other or to make it easier, this virtual world resembles the real world. Second Life also has its own currency which calls as “Linden Dollar”. The Linden Dollar can be used as we use money in real world, where we could buy goods, land, services and also trading goods with other users. The users can get the Linden Dollar by exchanging their US Dollar to Linden Dollar and using it in Second Life. These might sound interesting right?
However, what if you spend hours a day to be in the Second Life, become addicted to it and consider it as your real life? I think that this is scary. Just like in the handout that Prof Perry gave in the class about a woman divorcing with his husband after he found out that she is married with her in-world boyfriend in Second Life. Then, the woman met up with her virtual “husband” and realized that she did not really want that guy. If we think rationally, why should she choose to have relationship in the virtual world? For me, everything in the virtual world is unreal. We should not expect that anyone in the virtual world in better than the one that we met in real world. These people who obsessed with this virtual world, they should wake up from sleep, that virtual world is nonsense and they should just live out their own lives as the way it should be.
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In the case of Second Life, every people we met on Second Life are real. I mean, they must be someone in real world who are logged on to Second Life. The only thing that can be considered as unreal in this case is how people portray themselves. For example, in real world, I may be someone who wears thick spectacles, so thick that I look like Peter Parker (even Peter Parker is ten thousand times good-looking than me), I may be someone who stinks, don't shower at ALL. Okay, you get the idea. There's no way anyone wants to be my friend. It's just my appearance. If people would spend some time to get to know me, maybe there's hope. In Second Life, or any other virtual world, I can choose which image I want to portray, and which I do not. There's no way people can tell. From this example, it is not weird when people become obsessed with their virtual life. It's just a temporary solution. They might learn something from their experience on virtual life, and maybe it will give opportunity for them to fix their real life. What makes these people losers are when they just don't know when to stop. As the woman in the article, at least her experience gave her a wake-up call that she don't want the other guy, she just want her husband to treat her like that guy. Still, she's learning, right?
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