Last week while I was visiting Help Island Public in Second Life, I experienced and observed three different interactions:
1. An avatar in the shape of a huge spider was talking or I would say... kind of bullying another avatar named Calixto.
2. Some avatars were having a conversation about whether voice masking was ok on second life.
3. I received an email from an avatar who had offered to help me earlier and who I had responded "no, thanks" because I had to leave.
I was wondering about each of these interactions and I came up with these questions:
1. Is the look of your avatar a reflection of who you would like to be? What would you gain from being more powerful than other avatars? Why would someone go on Second Life to bully another avatar? What motivates them to do that? Are they trying to compensate for something in their own life?
2. Why would you use voice masking if people don't even know who you are or what you look like in real life?
3. Could the people that offer help to the point of sending an email after you log off be predators? Or are they simply people trying to be extremely helpful?
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