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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Bloggers Block

Yesterday, at the bookstore I saw a book called Best Bloggers. In it ,one seasoned blogger said that he never had to think long and hard for topics to write about in his blog, they just found him. I keep hoping that two topics will find me each week!

There was an interesting story about tweens cheating, lying, and stealing in online virtual worlds. The producer of Whyville said that kids are basically good, but she hires monitors to watch what is going on in the site. If a player is caught saying a bad word, a piece of duct tape is placed over the offending avatar's mouth and s/he cannot talk for several days. But kids have figured out that they can say words on the forbidden list by inserting a few extra spaces and capital letters. Some steal points and bend rules, saying that no one know who they are because they use made-up names, and hey, it's not real, after all, it's virtual. That raises an interesting question about the social consciousness these sites like Neopets, Club Penguin and Whyville may be instilling in our youth. And then I wonder..... How true are we to ourselves in SL?

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