In the words of one of my classmates, I officially "suck" at Second Life! Needless to say my first attempt at Second Life was a big, fat FAIL! I'm so frustrated because I wanted to try it out so badly...and here is how it all went down...
When I went to sign up for an account and download the software, it went quickly and easily and I thought "Wow! This is a lot quicker than I thought it would be!" Well, everything got downloaded and I had my account, chose my avatar, and opened up Second Life. The graphics weren't as good as I thought they would be, but I chose to ignore it because from what I've read Second Life has some pretty cool things to offer. But then, as I began to try to navigate (slowly but surely) through the virtual world, my avatar began doing some weird things- like her legs or head would disappear, or she would go bald for about 30 seconds. I tried navigating to different places, but couldn't get my avatar to go anywhere but that little welcome station they put you in when you first start.
I got so frustrated with my legless, bald avatar that I just closed the program and decided to start fresh the next day when I had had some rest and hopefully a renewed patience.Well, what do I find the next morning? That every time I try to open up Second Life it crashes!! I tried uninstalling it and installing it twice- and it did the same thing every time :-(
As of right now, I don't have the best review of Second Life, but from the little bit I saw of it, it looked pretty cool. Hopefully sometime soon I will be able to get the issue resolved and be able to explore it and it's educational possibilities.
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