Second Life

I recently signed-up for Second Life (a 3D virtual reality world), downloaded and installed the software and spent a couple of hours wandering around. After teleporting to a couple of places, where I wandered around aimlessly, I grew bored and looked for a place on the map where there were some people to interact with. Lesson #1) Watch out for where you teleport. Let's just say I ended up in a place where people were being a little too social. Some of these places reflected more of a wild life then a second life.

Well, my first foray into Second Life l(SL) eft me wondering what is the big deal? Yes, the 3D environment was impressive but the same can be said of some video games. I did not get to experience much interaction. I encountered an SL bot in one area and it seemed like I was getting fixed responses which grew tiresome quickly. I can't see the value for learning in this environment yet. I did find out that it can be a big time waster. Maybe first impressions are not good to go by.