The task 5 ask us take an ‘Internet field trip’ to 3D chat room. Rather than a regular IM chat room such as MSN, we were encouraged to take part in a 3D chatroom such as ActiveLife or Habbo.
Personally,I prefer MSN more than chatroom. Why? Because MSN is very secure – meaning you can only talk to people if you add and approve them and ofcourse you can remove and block them if you change your mind.
I decided to give this “Active Worlds” chatroom a try.The main difference I noted between regular MSN and this 3D environment was having to personalise yourself. For example, in comparison to MSN where your name and display picture is displayed… In these 3D chatrooms, you have a characterised person who represents yourself in these chatrooms.
I guess one okay point about 3D environments is that if your really really bored and lonely and socially deprived, you could enter these 3D chatrooms and become someone else and do wierd things… and no one will know who you are – which clearly explains the mass of strange and very, very wierd people already present in those chatrooms.
I do feel that the 3D aspect makes a huge difference to the chatrooms, as it adds more “life” to the strange environments and characters present. There is something highly amazing about seeing the avatars who look very wierd walk up to you and begin a wierd conversation.
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