News report #3

Second Life


www.secondlife.com

October 3, 2009



Second Life is a virtual world in 3D. This is a game for everyone. This web site is really neat. The web site offers stuff for teens to chat and adults. It is very interactive and has many options such as: You make your own person the way you see yourself. You have many options for a body, fat, tall, thin, muscles, and or body art such as tattoos. However you want to see yourself that is what you get. Next, you can be married or not. You can also change your gender as well as your looks.

This site is helpful for working people who have meeting and want to become better at their job. They encourage companies to join up so that their workers will be more productive. They offer chances to find work so that you buy things on the site such as: clothes and land. There are job offers that you can apply for like modeling or working for a company. Also, people give you free gifts such as jewels and or land.

On second life you will be able to talk with land lords about renting and buying land as well as buying land for a church. You can collect money for your cause and give money to whom ever you want. Also, make an expenses account to figure where your money is going. Second life also offer help with dealing with neighbors’ and some land owners have convents that you must follow or will be forced to move. If you would like to build a home second life lets you know where to build and how big it can be.

You may chose your own graphics preferences as well as customizing you’re groups that you would like to join. Talking about groups there are many types of groups such as: a group for the grieving, groups for the abused to just name a few.

Second life also offers chat for both adults and teenagers to talk with each other and enjoy many different friendship with whom ever. You can pretend what ever you want that fits your imagination. While your flying around the room their will be others who are doing the same thing. People will stop and talk to you and ask questions and say hi. You can travel where ever you like and buy a pet if you want. There are a lot of things you can do in this web site second life. But and I guess you knew there would be one.

The site also offers things for academics use such as Wikiapeda which I do not have much knowledge about because: I was not really interested in it because I felt their were to many issues dealing with second life.

On the other side, I feel this site is dangerous. Teens can talk to anyone and make up their own birth dates. There are free to meet whom ever is on this web site. Adults to, this can be a web site that’s not only abusive but dangerous. You must watch who you talk with and who you buy land from. On the site it self they say be aware of scammers looking out to sell land they don’t own. You also must be aware of whom you work for and are dealing with. The men on the site talk like a pig, asking you for sex and were will that lead for teens that are inexperienced with the sweet talk of pedophiles‘.

From my experience with this web site, I was afraid that some thing would happen to my person on the site because you are around a bunch of crazy looking people. Like men offering to have sex and others wanting you to join their church. Men giving you gifts and land. I think we should be aware of things like this on the Internet and not be so trusting.

Barbara Novak