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

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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".

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