One of the more personal reasons I chose to research this topic is the fact that I had a friend that I have known pretty much throughout my school career back in Monona, that more recently has been playing World of Warcraft, or WoW. This past spring he announced in my math class, that he would be going to Canada for a month or so out of his summer, to meet up with a girl he met on WoW. Everyone automatically thought he would get killed, for that "girl" he met would probably be a late 30's man with a thing for 18 year old kids. We constantly gave him shit for it, but he insisted that she was hot, and that he was definitely going to go through with the trip. Well, five months later, I kind of forgot about the ordeal, when I thought about the online lives of people and remembered his case. I promptly looked on FaceBook, and sure enough, there was an album called Canada 2009. I looked on it, and there she was, a quite attractive 18 year old, who lived in Canada, and it looked like they had a good time, camping, and going water tubing. I then thought that it might be smart to talk to him about his personal experiences with online games, and such but he never did try Second Life. He was more about the WoW. But he filled me in on programs that let you voice chat while playing the games like Ventrilo, Surround Sound Voice Communication Software, that gives you seamless audio feeds with the people you play with by all hooking you up to the same server and room. The reason they do this is because the in-game voice communication WoW supplies is low quality, and you really need to work as a team when playing WoW, so you can't have any drawbacks in your communication.
Introduction
So I have recently joined the world of Second Life, and am amazed at the complexity of it. My name in Second Life is Arthur Ferengeto. The very first thing they had me do was sign up. I had to enter my real name, country, and email address, and then I was asked to enter my Second Life name. I was not allowed to choose my last name, I am guessing because there are thousands and thousands of people who use this, so names get used up quick. I tried the names Kevin, James, and Jesse, and I wasn't even allowed to use those names because all of the last names were used up. That gave me a real view on how popular this program really was. After I confirmed my email address, I had to download the program to run Second Life. It's about a 230mb file which doesn't seem too big for the complexity of it, but since the internet is required, and preferably a high speed connection, I understand that a lot is coming from the servers. Right away when I entered, it showed me a few things that you can do, and how to do them, for example, you are able to Fly. I had a lot of fun with this feature, and flew all around the "Help" world. I went there so I could get a sense of how to do things. After that, I learned how to communicate, and use gestures to get peoples attention. I quickly realized though, that there are a lot more people than just english speaking people who use it, when I tried to talk to someone, and they replied with "Salut". At this point, I was close to ending my session of Second Life, but I felt it necessary to leave the tutorial world, and enter a "real" world. Upon my arrival, I was a little surprised by the amount of things going on in one world. Since the worlds are user created, generated, and maintained, they are free to do almost what ever they please, but in this world, there just seemed like there was a lot going on, and almost overwhelming to some. After walking and flying around for about ten minutes, I exited the Second Life and went to the internet for some answers.
One of the more personal reasons I chose to research this topic is the fact that I had a friend that I have known pretty much throughout my school career back in Monona, that more recently has been playing World of Warcraft, or WoW. This past spring he announced in my math class, that he would be going to Canada for a month or so out of his summer, to meet up with a girl he met on WoW. Everyone automatically thought he would get killed, for that "girl" he met would probably be a late 30's man with a thing for 18 year old kids. We constantly gave him shit for it, but he insisted that she was hot, and that he was definitely going to go through with the trip. Well, five months later, I kind of forgot about the ordeal, when I thought about the online lives of people and remembered his case. I promptly looked on FaceBook, and sure enough, there was an album called Canada 2009. I looked on it, and there she was, a quite attractive 18 year old, who lived in Canada, and it looked like they had a good time, camping, and going water tubing. I then thought that it might be smart to talk to him about his personal experiences with online games, and such but he never did try Second Life. He was more about the WoW. But he filled me in on programs that let you voice chat while playing the games like Ventrilo, Surround Sound Voice Communication Software, that gives you seamless audio feeds with the people you play with by all hooking you up to the same server and room. The reason they do this is because the in-game voice communication WoW supplies is low quality, and you really need to work as a team when playing WoW, so you can't have any drawbacks in your communication.
One of the more personal reasons I chose to research this topic is the fact that I had a friend that I have known pretty much throughout my school career back in Monona, that more recently has been playing World of Warcraft, or WoW. This past spring he announced in my math class, that he would be going to Canada for a month or so out of his summer, to meet up with a girl he met on WoW. Everyone automatically thought he would get killed, for that "girl" he met would probably be a late 30's man with a thing for 18 year old kids. We constantly gave him shit for it, but he insisted that she was hot, and that he was definitely going to go through with the trip. Well, five months later, I kind of forgot about the ordeal, when I thought about the online lives of people and remembered his case. I promptly looked on FaceBook, and sure enough, there was an album called Canada 2009. I looked on it, and there she was, a quite attractive 18 year old, who lived in Canada, and it looked like they had a good time, camping, and going water tubing. I then thought that it might be smart to talk to him about his personal experiences with online games, and such but he never did try Second Life. He was more about the WoW. But he filled me in on programs that let you voice chat while playing the games like Ventrilo, Surround Sound Voice Communication Software, that gives you seamless audio feeds with the people you play with by all hooking you up to the same server and room. The reason they do this is because the in-game voice communication WoW supplies is low quality, and you really need to work as a team when playing WoW, so you can't have any drawbacks in your communication.
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