Thursday, September 20, 2007

SecondLife = Frustration


My Second Life account has been nothing but frustrating. I can't figure out how to change her clothes, her hair or even look at her face. It's so frustrating because it seems like learning how to do these things is very difficult. I can't really get the whole moving around thing either.

I don't think the tutorial is very helpful, either. It asks me to pull a torch from my inventory and put it on my person. Well, I search through my inventory, and I have no objects. Okay, so how do I put a torch up?

I can't help but hate SecondLife right now. It's not fun, and I don't understand why it's such a popular computer trend. When I first learned about it, I thought it sounded awesome. But that's just it--in theory it's a great idea. In reality, it's horrible. I hate it, and I'm not looking forward to any more work with it. I hope that we don't continue these accounts.

Maybe I'm just not an internet world kind of girl. I don't get into the discussion board thing, and I'm over AIM and the like. I understand the visual communications behind it though: anyone can present themselves as whoever they want. Men can be women, women can be thinner, kids can be adults, etc. It's a chance to really have a second life. But I don't think it's for me. I'll take reality, thanks.

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