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Blog Week 2


Hi, it’s Katielloyd99 and I’m back again for week 2! This week I have been tasked with meeting three new people in the Second Life (SL) world. Last week while visiting different locations I did see other people, but I didn’t talk to any of them, this week however it is my mission to meet people! I already know Big Katie (BK) doesn’t like meeting new people in the real world, so hopefully, this virtual world will make it a little easier for me.


Location one; I went to “Bear Dream Lodge Inforhub”, I went here randomly, and I wasn’t quite sure of what the location was but there were a lot of people there. I knew there would be a good place to start when I teleported to this location, I could immediately see 9 people so I had many people to choose from who I would like to introduce myself to. I bit the bullet and introduced myself to “Lorelaei Taur”. I soon found out that in the real world, “Lorelaei Taur is a woman living in the United States, I quickly discovered that making connections in the virtual world is much more difficult than in real life – even if BK thinks real life is scarier! In the virtual world, people often have reservations about revealing information about themselves. Thinking about the future and possibly having to build up relationships completely virtually I will need to come up with a way to make better connections.


The next stop was “The Wordsmith, Bear”, a small book shop with just one person in it. I messaged them directly in chat and they weren’t online so I would have to wait until they were. This was something I didn’t know about SL, I didn’t know that while offline my avatar would still appear within the world. Once “Danceer” in touch I will find out more about them. One I spoke to “Danceer”, I discovered that they are an avid book reader and have created a virtual book shop, here you can purchase real books and such. I discovered that you can if you want to create a store and make a profit from within SL. Another thing I discovered is that although I got to talk to “Danceer” I have no idea who they really are or if anything they told me is real. This fact makes me question again how easy forming relationships for business or pleasure may be online.

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