Second life as mostly everything in life has a lot of flavors, it can go from clean and good vanilla to bitter sour grape.
Let’s take to the light side first, second life is excellent for on line education, for international communication interchange, old people can be young again, males can be females, people with disabilities can walk again and fly, people with future vision can see the models of commerce we will use someday, how the technology it’s going to develop, we can simulate all kinds of things. In second life we have a chance to do it again, this time we can be as old as we want we can be as beautiful as we want, we can have the name almost what we want (too bad we can invent our last name) we can live dreams and we can take out our frustrations, we can be as tall as we like, we can be any color, and any look.
But in the dark side, we can be all the bad we can carry inside, we can bug people around, make script and actions to kick people around, in the pretending of being someone else we can manipulate other people, hurt feelings and be extremely rude.
A wise friend of mine said “virtual being but true feelings”
Still what we see around is a mix of the world culture as no one can understand completely.
In my travels across this cultural ethnic phenomena, I have found group some people open to sex activities, people very friendly and warm, people very cold and distant, people with so many multiple designated personalities, people that play role games with a passion that can be dangerous to their real life minds, forgetting for some time that play mean fun, sometimes in putting so many rules into the games that they can teach a thing or two to dictators.
One of the things we have to wonder is the capability of second life in matter of communication; for instance ; the other night around 8 in the night in my local time, I was talking to a friend from Belgium, one from Miami and one from Israel , at the same time just chit chatting having a good time, It struck to me , how amazing is that, there is no other mean to do it (as far as I know for free ) to met with these people (even if it is virtual) in at the same time in any place.
