2nd Life

I found myself trying to figure out the controls and actions of my 2nd life person for hours. When making the attributes of my second life body i thought it would be fun to just go crazy with it. I made my person with very unproportionate attributes like huge bug eyes, elf like ears, extremely tall with a strange hair style. I feel most people make there person based on who they perceive themselves or what they would want themselves to look like in real life. I realized how hard it is to get someone to want to talk to you or even all you to contribute to a group discussion they don't really want any random outsides coming in and just throwing input at them when I wasn't there for the whole discussion. I believe its alot easier to walk up to someone or a group in second life but just as easy as it is to walk up to anyone or any group and try to talk to them its just as easy to ignore someone or walk away from them. This shows how technology has changes the way people confront one another with issues. You see it today how its so easy to hang a phone up on someone your having a conversation with than to tell them you aren't going to talk to them anymore and walk away. Same thing with talking online when you get in an argument with someone you just sign off on them. Im just amazed at all the things you can do on 2nd life similar to the real world. I just don't understand why people would spend money on here unless its a business and there doing it for advertising. But when a typical person just searching on second life starts to buy property and clothing its absurd. I thought that going on second life and trying to learn a bit about it and makign your own person was very enlightening but also showed you how to much technology can be the worst of us.