Second Lives on the Internet

By Jennifer Thome

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Second Lives on the Internet

By Meghan Backus

Story Published: Feb 27, 2007 at 11:47 PM EST

Story Updated: Feb 27, 2007 at 11:47 PM EST

Real people are living part of their lives in a virtual world. On the internet there exists 24-hour ever changing lands, businesses and games.
Millions of people are logging on but millions more don't know they even exist.

Second Life is a whole world in cyberspace. And on any given moment there are millions of people logged on.
People build what are called an Avatar or a virtual persona. They can look similar to you or but they don't have to.

In Second Life, you can buy products. Sears and Circuit City are just two stores that have set up shop.

But Second Life is just one of many virtual worlds out there. They're called Massive Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games.
Some others are Everquest, World of War Craft and for the kids, Club Penguin.

Thursday, May 21 at 9:50 AM hetedi wrote ...

The society needs to be attentive that moral values. Well things needs to be modernized but keeping intact with moral values.Something that everybody seems to forget is that you just need to look back at history and you will so that it has all been done before. Look at EverQuest, it is still going strong with the same game play from the past. Does anybody think that it really matters. hetedi EQ2 Plat

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