Second life - bluergh

I hate it. I can see it's practical appliance for businesses and appreciate that people have made business purely out of it, but in honesty I see the entire thing as a waste of time from a personal viewpoint.

Wandering around a fictional virtual environment "socialising" with people and doing activities all within this walled off fictional fantasy is beyond bizarre. Make real friends. Play them at games that are infinitely better designed and crafted by dedicated people. At least World of Warcraft is fantastical and intended for play and entertainment, not just some isolating representation of some sort of near reality where people go around and do mundane things you can do in the real world.

Perhaps the most shocking thing is people spending real life money on outdated blocky polygon skins for characters and environment designs. It's great for businesses, making money for practically no cost - Nike can count the Linden Dollars rolling in thick and fast from people literally spending money on nothing.

I suppose the point is to see it from a business point of view. A bunch of people willing to spend money on nothing, promote your real world business while selling them pixels. Sounds good! But even for promoting your business, Second Life holds nothing in terms of users compared to the social networking sites such as Facebook.

I can't comment much on this as my tendency is to rant in a Charlie Brooker-esque fashion. But this is for Uni and I'll reserve until summer.

I'm going to delete Second Life off my browser and go back to playing Half-Life. Having the meetings around the world in the environment is kind of cool mind you.