My first day in Second Life

I’ve never been more lost in my entire life. Or I should say in my first life… I felt disoriented and absolutely confused in an environment that I’m not used to at all. I don’t like video games and just so you get an idea of how good I am at them, I’m one of those who play car races on video games and never makes it to the end because I crash my car so many times I might even end up going backwards. Yes, that’s me. 

Feeling dizzy in front of the computer, with my avatar going round and round looking at everything on the screen, I was surprised by a naked avatar as soon as I entered the “new world.” But that’s how we enter the “real world” too, or not? I lately made my first trip to the Newseum (where I found NO ONE) and tried to find a classmate in a different location. Then Second Life crashed. 

My goal is to navigate the virtual world, get confident with it, talk to some people and find media outlets on it. The ones I know from my first life. But that seemed difficult yesterday. If I can’t find them, I will then read and watch Second Life outlets and analyze them as it is part of my project is to study how international media are using Internet applications to reach new audiences. 

In the meantime, I will post here daily to let you know my experiences and thoughts about my life in a virtual world where some are making real world fortunes –which I have no intent in doing. Yet

Jack Myers said that entering Second Life is “the equivalent of an amphibian taking its first tentative steps out of water and discovering how to breathe.”

Well,  I felt like that yesterday.

*Spanish Version

~ by onewayoranother on June 24, 2008.