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Week One

The first place I visited when exploring second life was this beach. It was pretty crowded and had a lot of things to do on it. It seemed like there was some sort of event or meetup happening as there was a crowd gathered in one part. There was people lying on beach chairs, out in the water too. I got talking to the person on screen who told me about his SL experience. He's been playing for a while and said he "works" in the game as a real estate agent. I liked this beach and it was interesting that some people were actually interacting with it like they would a beach rather than just standing around. If their character is lying down than they cannot interact as much with the environment so essentially them lying on a beach chair is a hinderance, but they do it anyway for the sake of doing a more realistic and appropriate action for the space they are in.


This place I came across while flying around an area of islands. It seems to be an abandoned and destroyed set of buildings or apartment blocks. I found this interesting because in a virtual world like SL having destroyed  places is unnecessary as they could simply be replaced or taken away. It is curious to think that this may have been not built to look destroyed and may have been destroyed for some reason which raises the question about how a world like this can change over time.

This area was a spooky October themed location which I found through the suggested "editors picks" section of locations to visit. In it there were people with ghost and halloween themed skins. It was interesting there was enough interest to have people coming to get in the seasonal spirit so early! The area itself was incredibly well built and had moving trains and other scary things to see and explore. One person I met was in full character when I talked to them. They were the ghost of a victorian era lady and they told me and two other visitors to the area about their horrific death and how they were here to haunt us. They flew away then with a howling sound. It really was interesting how people are dedicated enough to create entertaining experiences for random people. No doubt they have done this many times and do this for the satisfaction of creating these experiences.

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