Week 1

Communicating In Second Life I still feel like a newborn lamb in second life, stumbling around the place trying to find my feet. Talking to a few of second life's residents i got a better understanding of what its all about while having interesting conversations. I did find it hard to find people to talk to outside of the chat dedicated spaces and most of the greetings i got where unwelcome.  The first conversation i had was with G3nuin3 an alleged deputy sheriff in California who assured me he was nothing like Sherlock Holmes. Muddy's Music Cafe  In our brief conversation we discussed me going to California or why i shouldn't as its "overrated". G3niun3 told me he wanted to visit Ireland someday and I recommended he spend the majority of his time in the west then one or two days in Dublin. Similar to California, Dublin is also "overrated". I was an easy and well flowing conversation. It was like i was texting him on snapchat or whatsapp. That

On first entering Second Life i felt like i had stumbled upon the dark web where guns, drugs and people were sold. The last time i had played in a virtual online world was when i was still aged by single digits playing Moshi monster and club penguin, a far cry from second life. When i first began exploring the world i couldn't understand why people would want to spend time in this world rather then the one outside but the more i played it began to make more sense. The different worlds and structures that people had created were astounding. I had no idea anything like this was possible. That certainly is something that makes sense to me. The barriers of face to face interactions are also lifted in second life making it easier to talk to people. It seems to be a very social pastime where there are interesting people but also one to avoid, the ones in latex. The Valley After the lecture had concluded Rachel, another girl who's name has slipped my mind and i explored the