I am in the world when client is on and logged in, and avatar is walking, talking and stuff. I am also in the world when reading Herald or NWN or SL Insider, no matter that client is off and avatar is sleeping somewhere in temporary death of database. Am I? Really, where is the border of our two lives?
Do your human lives through your avatar? Do your avatar lives through your human? When you post on forums or blogs, whose words are you typing?
For some it is hard to know, maybe even to notice there is a difference, that there is a border. It is usually case with residents who feel their second lives as an extension of their first. May they be hard core neuromancers with heavy connection between their two bodies, or just ordinary human who plays their toys in computer game of Second Life. Between them is the rest of the population: role-players, virtual businessmen, all the crowd that have fun in the clubs and beaches… More or less, they are all roleplaying. They have their roles that are fine mixture of their “real” and their imagined selves. But, are we aware where is the thin and sometimes blurry line that separates our flesh bodies from those we created in the world of pixels? Really, whose words you will type in the comments?
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