New Life

Creating a new life is more time consuming than I thought it would be. The warnings, creating "things" (do I really need "things" in SL? What's up with creating things in SL? I'd need a place to keep them - so then a job, purchase land, things, etc.. I have enough of that in FL (First Life).), learning the rules of how to live, wah, wah, wah. I can't believe that this is how children feel when they are first learning (well, you do need personal awareness, so let's say that my avatar has the awareness of a 10 year old - frustration when I'm trying to move on and seemingly can't or shouldn't). When can I really live??? Surprisingly I no longer think about how I look or that my name is not my own. I deliberatly chose to be anonymous in SL to enable me to try all kinds of things within SL. AFTER I learn all the rules. AFTER I become proficent with the intertextuality required to "live" in SL. Regarding my anonymity in SL, Alessandra Talamo and Beatrice Ligorio stated in their paper Strategic Identities in Cyberspace, "In most cyberspace environments, depending on their nature, users can remain anonymous or they can be immediately recognized." (110) Since I have chosen anonymity, I will be interested to see if that affects my actions or thoughts or even my pesonal intertextuality. Work cited: Alessandra Talamo, Beatrice Ligorio. CyberPsychology & Behavior. February 1, 2001, 4(1): 109-122. doi:10.1089/10949310151088479.