By Nadine Kam

Second Style
Haver Cole’s interpretation of one of Christian Siriano’s “Project Runway” winning styles in the virtual Second Life magazine Second Style.

Back in earlier days of Second Life, I nosed around for a while but didn’t get that into it. I guess the problem was, my avatar looked just like me.

I could have made my avatar more beautiful, taller, curvier, a Glamazon among women, but I didn’t want to be one of THOSE people who tried to pass myself off as something I’m not.

But I guess I missed the point of having a Second Life, which is to somehow make it better, on every level, than the one you do have.

Ah, who was I trying to kid? I knew exactly which avatars were doubles for their real-life counterparts. I knew which were inauthentic because of their telltale impossibly thin figures and cartoonish beauty. And I shied away from the weirdos with spikes portruding from their bodies, odd hairdos, those that looked like Cartman. I couldn’t help but think that, far from showing humorous traits, they were the embodiment of personality disorders.

Now, a Stanford study tells how, just as in real life, looks matter in Second Life.

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/03/stanford-study.html

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