Often when I want to escape reality I don’t pick up a book or watch a film, I spend time on Second Life. It is a MMO (massively Multi-player Online) program which really is just a glorified type of MSN really. You create yourself a 3D avatar weather be animal or human and use that as your online persona. In world you can rent a condo, own a small square of paradise or a whole sim if you like. One doesn’t have to have a home, you can just as easily drift from place to place chatting, partying and having fun with people from around the globe.
You can buy Lindens, their form of currency, or you can work to earn just as you do in real life. Jobs can range from bartender to party host to model to builder. Almost anything you can do in real life you can do in Second Life.
I have had many different accounts but three main ones. My current av’s name is Cat Later. She comes in four different forms (in world you’d call them skins or furrskins), ginger tabby (my most common furrskin), grey tabby, black and white husky and human.
I’ve been using Second Life since 2007, have had the ups and downs, taken breaks and had times here i’ve been completely obsessed with being in-world. Overall it’s great fun, you meet awesome people (even a few crazy ones too) and it’s a nice escape from real life.
