Second Life: What's wrong with your first life?


	Second Life: What's wrong with your first life?

redhead328

1-25-2007 12:42 PM

405 views

tags:

second life, virtual reality, alienation, internet

redhead328 says:

At first glance Second Life appears to draw people together as a community, but in "reality" it only facilitates further the further alienation of it's members with the people in their "real life".

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Beware of Lobbies

You have extraordinary capacities.

Scalia's self-contracition

Spectacular Summer Sights: Shooting Stars

Found: Milky Way's Second-Brightest Star (2)

Phone Book of The World

More clips from redhead328

Public Oversight

fun stuff

Second Thoughts About Second Life

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from January 25, 2007

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/df785324-00c7-47de-a962-553229a0ca62/5F16F318-F7B2-4737-A604-E0DEF06F0376/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2742/" href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2742/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiked-online.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2742/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD bgcolor="%23d6cede" colspan="2"><SPAN class="firstListTitle">
                                            Get a First Life                                            </SPAN><BR /><SPAN class="articleAbstract">The desire to escape the real world and 'live' in online games like Second Life is no longer limited to lonely geeks.</SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2742/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiked-online.com/img/A525FE76-1144-4495-9303-4C27C8121AAE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2742/"><B>Last September, 22-year-old Brian Barrett was shot dead in his truck in New York State. That might not sound unusual, some would say, given America’s violent reputation. But this murder is a bit different, allegedly involving a convoluted love triangle based largely in the virtual online game Second Life.</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5F16F318-F7B2-4737-A604-E0DEF06F0376/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from redhead328

Today's Top Clips