"Pick a favorite reading and/or concept and post about it. Explain the concept or reading to refresh our memories. Tell the class why you have chosen this concept or reading, and what it is you like about it."

My favorite reading/concept that I chose to post about was "The Second Life". Basically what this reading was about, is the use of avatars online, and how people use them to create a persona of someone or something they would really like to be. Many people use these is video games to give themselves a better feeling of who they really might want to be. The interesting this is I actually have an avatar for Xbox Live, and it looks just like me, but I don't take it to the extremes that some others do, some people actually pay money to buy different clothes or accessories of this to update that player. To me thats just crazy, but to others it may be fulfilling what they really want to appear as to others that are viewing them. The reason I chose this was because its something that is really unsaid to a lot of people that aren't in the "Gaming World". Because they don't get the opportunities to see the extremes that people goto to become something. I liked this reading because it allowed me to have a better understanding of why some people create these avatars to the extreme that they do.