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Tonight’s experience with Second Life may have been one of the most things I’ve done in class at Ryerson. It was really fun to see everyone working together and interacting in such a fun and excited way. I really want to give credit to Second Life, but I just can’t. That experience was fun because we were all physically sitting in the same room together, not because we were all online together. At first I was thinking, “wow Second Life is fun”, but I soon realized that it’s my classmates that are fun, not the program that we are using. Second Life is neat and has phenomenal programming, but had we been given something else creative, something that was hands on we would have had just as much.
The one thing that I did find fascinating was the process of creating my avatar. It’s the strangest feeling to be intently trying to narrow down what you look like into numbers in a drop-down menu. I haven’t been able to get anywhere close with my avatar, which makes me really wonder how well I know what I look like. Some people did such a good job that you could pretty much tell who they were. This experience gave me a lot to think about in terms of how we form our identity, and how technologies like this have great potential for changing the way we create our identities.
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