Archive for October, 2009
Second Life Lives Up to It’s Name
Online Second Life GameResidents of the popular online world, Second Life, do many things people in the real world do every day. From going to class and starting their own businesses, it truly is a remarkable clone of most people’s every day lives. With train stations and busses, the only hint it is not real are the many characters with wings, alien heads and tails. Born in 2000, second life is backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as well as eBay’s founder, Pierre Omidyar. Many people live out fantasies in Second Life they do not get to experience outside the virtual realms of reality.
Online Cheating Leads To Real World Split
Online Second Life Game - newsA British couple are divorcing upon a wife’s discovery that her husband had been chatting up other women in the virtual world, Second Life. Her DJ character found her husband’s goatee toting, medallion wearing character having a romantic in game relationship and was crushed. The game allows players to do anything they can do in the real world, including hiring private detectives to catch their cheating virtual spouses in the act. The couple originally met in an internet chat room. Although the divorce is not yet finalized she has returned to her maiden name using deed poll.