Second Life

I was introduced to Second Life when we started working on this project during the spring 2009. I had read about Second Life and snapped up some bits of information about the virtual reality from mainstream media before we started. Logging on to Second Life and creating an avatar was a bit like and role-playing game. As I moved into the world I learned to find free stuff, got myself some hair some clothes and started making myself "a home".

Virtual or Real

I find it hard to understand what people mean when they say a virtual world. Do they mean the internet, because so many things on the internet are real. Maybe not physical, but real in the world. When I move my money from one account to the other, that is real. When I chat to people online through msn it is real, even if we don't meet in the physical world and the names we use are not our own names, and the stories we tell about ourselves are lies, the meeting is real.

Gender Roles

Gender and sex are two different things. Gender is social and sex is physical. Where I grew up, and many other places, there are two genders, male and female. Most will be brought up and socialised according to one or the other.