Virtual Worlds and Second Life: Bring on the Love
Identity and Expression, Second Life | (27)
What's WRONG with love in a virtual world? Why does the press insist on obsessing with sex and divorce? Well, pretty much for the same reason I'm writing this post - as a shameless traffic generator.
Not really.
But hyperventilating commentary about the forlorn and the jilted, the lovestruck and cheaters - well, it makes good press, although it reminds me of the early days of the Web when the media, which didn't understand what was going on, focused on what they termed a seedy underbelly and what everyone else termed a natural reaction: if you have a new vehicle for ...