Barney: I got so fat, at the end of the day you'd unhook my bra. Robin: You were the only boyfriend I ever motor boated. - how i met your mother.

how unhappy do we have to get with our lives that we give up? what is it about another world, to be whoever we want that excites us so much?? I'm asking because today I'm going to talk about second life.


for those of you who don't know what that is, its basically a new way to chat online through a personally created avatar and travel through different places talking to other people like this...

but the bit that makes me laugh is the words 'and place to be different, to be yourself'?? how is being different being yourself? and just how unhappy with your life do you have to get to start this virtual one?

people have gotten so in to this game they have forgotten their real lives, starting up virtual businesses, relationships and families in this 'fake' world.

this American couple actually met on secondlife, fell in love on secondlife, got married on secondlife and then also got married in 'real life' as well...


second life ends couples first marriage

although this real marriage did end in divorce after she found him 'cheating' on her with his virtual avatar in second life!

but there is also the excitement of travel, you can go anywhere in the world just by sitting on your lounge! now although i find this kind of stupid, i can understand for those who cant get away, who don't have disposable income to travel around the world, but from personal experience of second life, its nothing like the real thing...

...yes that right, you heard me, i started up a second life, but let me just say it was from curiosity (and i didn't like it at all) although whilst playing it in one of my classes, it was amusing going up to random people and dancing on them, exploring scary dungeons and all round scaring my teacher that i will be mentally hurt if i get bashed in the virtual game, its defiantly fun for a giggle :) (sorry Cathy) but i don't think i could get addicted and forget about my actual life!

don't people have friends or family in their real life that they are leaving behind? or is that why they are starting the game? but isn't it a game? well apparently its not to them, its their life....

this is what i don't understand, ok yes i have had my short obsession with creating my life on The Sims - a virtual PlayStation game that allows you to create characters and play as if you were them, but the point of it is that its just a game, and your playing the characters, there is no online resource allowing others to join, its literally you playing by yourself (may i add this obsession only lasted a week whilst a short stint of unemployment). so where do you draw the line? when do we have to realise that there is no way to forget our real life and replace it with a virtual one?