Social Networking and Virtual Worlds

The idea of living in a "Virtual World" has been a big thing to me. I always wanted to try and make an image of myself within a virtual world since I was about 10 years old and now there are many Virtual Worlds out there. Worlds of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI, Second Life and Virtual Lower East Side are just some examples of Virtual worlds that are out there that are being used for gaming and entertainment. Businesses also use some of these Virtual Worlds. Some people make a few buck from selling the Virtual World currency from video games to those who don't have enough time to play to make up the online money they need for certain things. Even IBM is trying to create their own Virtual world for training using the same concept that video games use according to "IBM Learning Programs get a 'Second Life'". There is a Dark side to these Virtual Worlds because since a lot of people know that they can basically stay anonymous or that they may never see that person they can blur out secrets or just make others uncomfortable by saying hurtful things just to start fights. I really don't know how much these virtual worlds will change but my idea is that most things will evolve to the way the Nintendo Wii is. That in the virtual world there would need to be more body movement with some kind of device. If not then it could just be powered by our imagination, meaning whatever we think of would be projected on our screens with some type of limits of course.