Mmmm....technology?

I was searching for things to blog about and I came across this ‘weird’ creation the internet has enabled. It’s called second life – and it is just that – it is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its online Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe.

It is a world online where you create your own identity, build, buy and sell your own homes and land, buy your food, clothes, and shop with real second life dollars – Linden Dollars. This is a world outside the real world and according to some of the residents inside second life; they spend their days in front of their computer indulging in this life. Some say ‘they prefer it to the outside world’.

Is this a matter of ignorance, is this a way for people to ignore the outside world – the real world. Is this healthy? Fair enough, online social networks like MySpace and face book maybe restricting real conversations, replacing f2f communication but people who engage in these networks still participate in the outside world. They still live, buy and sell real homes, shop in real shops and receive real mail from their real mail box outside their real home.

In previous posts I have raised the question whether technology, such as the internet, has actually facilitated or created various behaviours. But, in my opinion, this has just gone too far... it’s a tad on the ridiculous side.