Finally Im on V-side. I encountered problems with second life so this is an alternative resort which was recommended by a friend and my tutor. Quite a fun start redesigning myself, didn't feel the need to change my hair colour etc, just my height. As ive always wanted to be a tad taller.
At first I didn't know what to do and just wondered around getting used to the action keys. Then after a short while I decided to start a conversation, I found it really strange interacting with complete strangers but it was rather amusing. I think I met a girl from New York called wanda, but then again how can we trust someone we don't know to be telling the truth. Talked firstly about music as you do on these virtual realities games lol. Then abit about New York as I went there this summer just gone. Quite embarrassing as she tried to show me around, and we were climbing on the roof tops but I couldn't jump as high as her, I kept trying but then the jump action button got stuck and I couldn't stop jumping. So in the end I Just logged off, oh dear what a great start. At least I had someone friendly to help me out seeing as it was my first time on the game.
I really enjoyed the music element to V-side and heard loads of great tunes. Ill be back on again tomorrow.
Before going back onto V-side again I thought It would be helpful to do a tutorial that was recommended on the V-side website. It was really good at familiarizing myself with the basics keys and to do's and not to do's of V-side. It showed me how I could change my profile photo and choose different poses and backgrounds. It taught me how to get rid of someone as a friend if they were to start bothering me. Hopefully I won't have to have that experience, however alot of my real life friends that also do Multimedia have complained about being hassled.
I also discovered that there are secret places hidden within V-side that you can find and explore. With this in mind I decided to revisit the sites and explore them more thoroughly than before. I found my self on a rooftop bar overlooking the sea which was actually really relaxing. Its easy to become absorbed in V-side and I wondered around for an hour or so stopping occassionly to take some notes.
Location- New Venezia North.
Had quite a repeated number of problems with my view option today, I think it got stuck and subsequently where ever I would move the mouse my gaze would follow and this also prevented me from being able to click on links and action buttons. Therefore I was forced to log out twice. Apart from these minor hickups I enjoyed discovering some other activities you can get up to, like being able to dance. I think I honestly went through all of the available moves, may have made a slight fool of my avatar but apart from that its really wicked.
Visited the All American Rejects apartment which was interesting as it had a information screen that provided links to relevent websites.
A while later I realised I was being followed by a young girl which strangely made me feel uncomfortable, even though its not real. I sat down in a bar and she came to talk to me and immediately asked "can you be my mommy" we can assume by their spelling that they're american. This strange approach threw me slighlty and I didn't know what to say apart from a big NO. Now I've experienced some of the stranger characters that use V-side it's put me off slightly as I don't particularly want to be chatting with them. I recently watched a story on the news about how paedophiles play out their sworded fantasies on second life, which is disturbing to know as It makes me feel vulnerable. The girl who spoke to me today claimed she was only 11 but who knows whether she was being truthful, as I was with my age. I don't like this whole virtual world where we aren't familiar with these friends we make
My recent attempt at socializing with other members of v-side failed misreably as noone seemed to respond. Which I thought was rather strange however I kept receiving friend requests off a few people.
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