Reading #4- Virtual World

SecondLife and things of that nature absolutely boggle my mind. In a previous class of mine, I was introduced to Secondlife for the first time. My professor told me that Secondlife was starting to create some real life problems. Things like, affairs on second life. Is that really an affair? If you are married in real life, and you are married on second life, and having sex on second life, is that cheating on your wife? These are some of the problems that lawyers are having to deal with right now, and they are lost, they do not know how to handle it. Another example is a lady, and I forget her name, that was making hundreds or thousands of real dollars on second life with advertising. She then put on a seminar (on secondlife) to explain how she has done it. During this seminar somebody molested her avatar person and everybody left and it was a big debacle. Little did she know, she was going to lose lots and lots of real dollars because of this disaster. So she took it to court, and thje courts do not know how to deal with something like this. The courts said, this is a game, there is no room for it here in the real courts. But wait, if she is losing real american dollars then it should be a big deal right? I have never personally tried secondlife, but I do hear that it is fun. But these problems are problems that courts and marriages and such never ever expected to have to deal with, and there is certainly an adjustment period. Whats next? Thirdlife? Where you are animals or something, I dont know. I know that it is amazing what technology can do nowadays, its amazing that somebody can create these things such as Secondlife.