Creativity and New Media

For the cretaivity assignment I decided to explore the "Virtual Worlds". I have never used any of the virtual world applications and I thought it would be interesting to play around with them. I have created an avatar in the "Second life". I have created someone that totally doesn't look like me- I wanted to be someone different in the virtual life.  Unfortunately, the application didn't live up to my expectations: my experience wasn't really user-friendly and I found the program to be less intuitive than I expected. First you have to install a program on you computer, which means that you can only operate your avatar from one computer and can't just simply log-in anywhere. Second- there are so many buttons and options, that I got lost! It took me about 10-15 min to figure out how to change my outfit. Therefore, it turned out to be very-time consuming and no longer enjoyable. In the long run, I am not sure if I continue using "Second Life", but i found it to be a great opportunity to use my imagination and create someone that I am not, be able to attend places as a "new" person and have a real-time conversations with other "people".