Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Second Life

Upon wandering around the virtual world known as Second Life it really blew my mind. I had never been on this site and other than seeing my younger brother waste countless hours with the Warcraft series i had never been exposed to this entity. Its almost creepy in that you walk around aimlessly and essentially live your "Second Life". After hearing the lecture on how people have made millions through virtual property or the virtual world its really kinda scary that people partake in such activities as a job. It is to say that that the amount of legal supervision that occurs in this realm of the world does not correspond with the amount of users or money makers on such sites. I was so blown away by this website that i had a friend create an account and browse and he was equally blown away.
I began researching different ways that people have made it big in this industry and I found several ways that seem simple to make it rich. The one that i found the least clever and almost assumable was the virtual casino that acted as a real casino that was just the same as such sites as partypoker or fulltilt poker. I also found that Second Life does not "own" everything on the site such as other sites like facebook or myspace. These ideas just make me ponder the endless possibilities that can exist in virtual world and really does scare me with what is to come.

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