Week 9

IMMERSIVE EFFECTS: COMMUNICATION AND SECOND LIFE
I had never heard of Second Life before this week's lecture and i was so impressed how second life and people who made this thing work got so much benefits out of it. I mean, why would we need a second life? Excuse me? Is it because they cannot handle their real life so we have to seek the second life- an online life to satisfy their imagination? FAIL!  Again i think about a lot of people, who cannot connect themselves with others, are obsessed with filling their life with STUFF, namely stuff from EBAY...lol...it is just so easy nowadays...to create an account, become a member, and start buying things you don't need to fill your house with junk.  Yet, the internet and this online world is so available and so imaginative; plus, we don't need to move our ass, we don't need to open our mouth, we don't need to actually communicate but still "communicate" with the whole world. I imagine when telephone was born, people must have gone crazy by its magic of communication!
After all, what is communication? Shall we stick communication with its traditional definition? oops, what is its traditional definition anyways? Do we actually have one? Is open your mouth and talk to people a traditional communication? or write a letter then send them by pigeon/ horse/ post a traditional communication? or shall i say all of them are just merely means of communication? As all forms are reformed, sooner or later as a circle of life? Shall we accept Second Life as a new way of communication and regard it as a good tool to connect people ( well, because, it actually connects people, it just depends on our opinions to say whether it has bad or good effects).