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My impression is that the personality of an avatar

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is actually quite close to one's own.

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This comes from my observation of some [br]people and their avatar's demeanors

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and their way of doing things.

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For example, the distance avatars keep from [br]one another when they interact in Second Life

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is very close to what happens in real life.

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When someone gets too close to you,

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instinctively, you will move a step or two away.

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Because, even though it's the [br]interaction between two avatars,

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you can still sense the subtlety

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and the degree of intimacy

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and so the need to keep a distance.

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I think it applies to many things,

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including the way they talk or type.

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Some people are very rude.

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They may bump you,

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or the language they use may contain [br]a certain degree of violence.

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I think the avatar's identity is [br]basically akin to one's true persona.

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Maybe it's just me,

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but I think some people might [br]reveal their true persona

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through the behaviors of their avatars.

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When we travel through Second Life,

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we inevitably project our first life into it.

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We in fact bring many of the dilemmas

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and quandaries that we face in our [br]real life to the fore in Second Life,

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hoping to resolve them.

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Or we hope and attempt to use Second Life

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to decode and interpret our real life.

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But we are unable to untangle or find a solution

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to the intrinsic dilemmas of the human condition.

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The fact remains that we cannot really [br]resolve our own plight and predicament.