WTF 2

A few weeks ago, I watched a great show that changed my idea of what a Second Lifer was, I didn’t expect to see inside the chatroom so clearly, I didn’t expect people to fall in love, I didn’t expect people to get married on line, to be honest from my lack of expectation I should not have been really surprised at anything I saw, however I was; I was extremely disgusted at one particular woman who had gone as far as leaving her children and husband to see the man she had fallen in love with in Second Life.To me the whole idea that she wasn’t the only one, was an even more bizarre idea to me, I started to judge those people. But who am I to judge, as that was one of my new years resolutions not to be so judgemental, I instantly failed with the wonderland documentary as the situation that I was watching was so far removed from my day to day existence.

The wonderland documentary, does brings in the question what the social norms are in relations to using the internet, its ok to be on Facebook and Myspace and have hundreds of friends that you never meet, or never even talk to, moreover when you meet someone and fall in love on an internet dating site that that's normal as that's the site's main function. The more I sat and watched the programmes, and now weeks later in someway I can understand the lonely housewife, who found escapism by using a website like Second Life, and that’s probably the main people who use the site people who want to remove themselves from their day to day existence, to the point where love can be formed, friendship can be formed, money can be made. I honestly cannot say that I am in full acceptance of the behaviour of all the subjects in the programmes esp. the housewife, but on some level I have come to some understanding of why someone like her would find her self transfixed and falling in love on an Internet site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQwdK2T0Bzs