Diary Synopsis

I tried to enter the community of Second life but found I could not enter the community or even get an account from them so I found a different online community call Vside. This is a small online community. There are only three average sized maps to explore.

I found my experiences in Vside to be at time to be a bit boring I started getting a little bored with doing the same things I did not like the idea of socialising on a computer with people I do not know I preferred to socialise with people I know. The first two weeks were ok they were more about discovering what was it all about and why people create a new identity. At first I got a little addicted to the online community. I think it’s been more of a novelty of meeting and talking to people you haven’t met and are in a different country. I noticed that it never really gets busy until late at night I found most of the events I went to, this could be because the creators of this online community are based in America and so the majority of the people that go on this community are American and the events that I went to. It was three in total they were at 4 o’clock in the morning. I only did this to experience what it would be like to visit these events.

In Vside I also heard that there were quite a lot of secrets to find in Vside. I was fun finding these secrets I meant that I had to make more friends so I find these secrets within the online community. Managed to make around more than 100 friends, in the community there is an incentive to making more friends because you earn points called “Respekt” points the more you have you are able to access new areas such as VIP rooms or buy items of clothes that are made available by getting more points. I did actually make friends with someone that I spoke to on a number of occasion’s jus to catch up. They were one of the people who invited me to the event that took place one event was quite tricky to find. I had to find my way to a hidden basketball court. It took a while to find. The party was at 4 am so I decided to look for it before the party I did not want to be looking for something so early in the morning.

I would say my experiences in Vside to be quite exciting but as the time went on and I done majority of the things you could do on Vside. I got a little bored especially when the project work got more demanding I got less and less to enthusiastic about visiting the community. I think I might go on it again from time to time but I don’t think I could get addicted.