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

Progress

I have now completed 6 weeks of this course, and have known all along that the aim was to complete your own blog, and complete a group project to pass this course, what I didn’t think was that time would fly so fast, and that outside factors form other courses would actually let my focus from this course slip. My initial excitement for bloging was somewhat lackluster, but as week three came I was gradually getting into the swing of writing a weekly blog, although its been mentioned that I should not have talked about Heath Ledger, I still believe that at that time it was ok, as the focus of the course was not ingrained in me and at that time, I honestly thought that you could write whatever you wanted, on any topic that you were interested in. Heath's blog post, also had the mention of TMZ.COM, as I touched upon however consume news today, especially people within my age group who would much rather look at the news on the internet, rather than watch BBC news at 6.

The group project is coming along, slowly with the ever present deadline looming, the realisation that we have to complete everything as soon as possible had dawned on me last week, as a group we have discussed on job roles, but none had truly been carried out apart from those doing the researching, there have been absents that have left the whole group togetherness a slight hindrance, as everyone does not seem to be on the page as to where we need to be going. As of last lesson I finally feel that we are heading in the right direction, and will be able to start putting pieces together, before we can go ahead and get the website looking wonderful.

I have every faith that we are going to complete this group project at a great level, that will be impressive to us as well as 'Nigel', I hope for the next few weeks we can pull our socks up, and get the group dynamic up to par that we can work together in our best interest.

Raquel Stewart Who?