Curious

I was wondering how everyone else's attempts at immortalizing themselves are going? I am curious to know because as I begin reflecting on my own project I am seeing many of the shortcomings. I am not really immortalizing myself. The character I play on Second Life is not an accurate reflection of who I am in real life. In real life I am a student, a nanny, a friend, a daughter and so many other things. On Second Life I am a girl named Flora Crannock who can hardly move without running into someone else or making herself look a fool (in real life I do not encounter nearly as many problems with physical movement).

Second Life is an interesting augmented reality but I am seeing how it does not provide a very solid platform for immortalization. Second Life is nothing like real life. I cannot fly in real life nor am I able to transport to distant and imaginary lands (however tempting that may be as I look out into the snowy abyss).


Is anyone else encountering this conflict? I feel I am the most real when I am at my house cooking a meal with close friends and laughing over a few beers, so much more real than I am when I am trying to navigate a new and confusing virtual landscape! Since we are all using technology in some fashion I would imagine that we are all encountering some similar problems, looking forward to discussing the problems you have run across.