Where to begin? Well I tried to give second life a chance, really did. I figured you know what let's create myself and fly around and meet people. Boy was I wrong. I was first very distracted with trying to create myself as an avatar. I'm not the type of person who is going to create myself as something that I am not. I may have some flaws but I love who I am and will not pretend to be something or someone I am not. So when it was told to me that you can create yourself anyway that you want it, seemed like that was the selling point of Second Life. It takes a different type of character to want to hide behind their avatar to try and gain that first visual appeal in order to spark up a conversation or gain friends. It takes out that learning aspect of how to really deal and interact with people in a face-to-face environment. The other thing I noticed was that the guys were very eager to try and spark up a "typing" conversation with every attractive girl that came across in avatar. Let's see the person behind those avatars and throw them into an environment with a similar situation and see if they would still try and hound every girl that they walked right past.
The next thing that frustrated me was the difficulty of trying to create myself as an avatar. There were so many buttons and features and functions that I just felt that none of them really worked for what I was trying to accomplish. I do not want to spend 2 hrs trying to create my avatar. After I gave up on creating myself I did not want to give it another chance and felt it was just a burden to try and finish creating this avatar because I was not 100% satisfied with it.
Now I am not judging the people who really enjoy role playing in second life because that may bring them the pleasure that they need in life. And everyone's pleasures are different and mine generally deal with going out and meeting real live people.
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