My name is 'Villager Barbosa' in the virtual game world. I'm a novice. I haven't learned how to dance well in the virtual clubs. I don't have a place to live in the virtual game world.
However, others are much more experienced. Some folks can use their "avatars" that represent themselves, to engage in relationships, social activities and fighting monsters and other obstacles.
Some folks get buck-wild in virtual worlds. Players often abandon their inhibitions, engaging in activity online that they would never do in the real world. For instance, sex with strangers is a common activity.
Drumbeats from Jamal Ali pointed me to the story of a 43-year-old player in a virtual game world who became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona.
The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his ID and password to log onto the popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in May, a police official in Japan said.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.
I've been divorced twice already ... I don't think I'll go that route in the virtual world! But, reach this way if you can teach me some dance moves in Second Life...
4 comments:
Wow, anger management issues! That's crazy. I steer clear of the virtual worlds because you never know who people really are. Blogging and twitter are virtual enough for me.
Do folks really have sex in those worlds? Like, their avatars do? That's just, um, weird!
I dont know if I should laugh or shake my head.
LosAngelista - I tried to get involved with Second Life for a few weeks. However, when I went into a virtual club owned & operated by some brothers & sisters and realized that I had no idea how to maneuver my avatar to dance with any degree of rhythm ... I got game-shy and haven't been back much since then. I never got close enough to anyone in there to try sex ... but, I came across it more than a few times...
Mike - Have you ever gone into the virtual world of 'Second Life'?
Karoly - Thank you very much for the kind words. I imagine that my blog ... like many others ... will evolve in a different way now that the presidential elections are close to being over. I hope that we continue to give you a reason to visit in the future...
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