Thursday, September 18, 2008

Assignment:Second Life (2)

Second Life is an Internet-based 3D vitual world. According to Wiki, ''Residents are the users of Second Life, and their appearance is their avatar but may be of either gender, have a wide range of physical attributes, and may be clothed or otherwise customized to produce a wide variety of humanoid and other forms.”

  • I hope our school has its second life space. This space can help us to expand our imagination and life experiment. Currently, most of us spend a lot of time in MSN. In MSN we can talk with our friend on computer instantly. But MSN is just dialogue between two persons or among persons. Through Second Life, we can do more things with our friends on computer. It is more bountiful and interesting than simple MSN activities.

    Meanwhile, we can play different roles in Second Life space. Therefore, we can learn to do another guy in this space. For example, I am a girl, but I can become a gentleman in this space. In real life, it is impossible for me. To impersonate another person is very interesting for the resident in Second Life Space. Maybe it can give me more chances to understand the others thoughts. It is very useful for me to understand and care my families, friends and colleagues. I redeem that is a major contribution of Second Life.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Assignment:Second Life



Before I watch this video, I don't know what is "Second Life". After I watched this video, I just already know that Second Life is a virtual videogame. I felt it is so magical in the virtual videogame.

"Second Life" is in a social networking site. The users can interact in these online worlds in real time. They can do many virtual things in this videogame.They can make friends,play games,join groups, communicate with other users in this videogame, and so on.

I consider it is very convenient. It can satisfy ourselves needs and give us pleasure. But we have to know it is virtual world. It is not appropriate to spend too much time in the videogame. We should come back to real world! We should treasure our real life!

The most important life is real life! We should spend our time to get along with our family, our friends. As a student, he or she should concentrate on his or her studies. We still can do what the videogame provide us. Second life just a virtual world. There are still other meaningful things we can spend on them.