(Virtual Youths Meeting and Networking on Second Life (E-learning Activity)

I find this virtual experience very unique and interesting. When I entered the SecondLife account, I am amazed about the unique features such as the different gestures, movement and on top of that the different people across the world. I find that this virtual experience is a very good and efficient way to interact with people across the globe and having to meet more new friends and that is the best part for me through this virtual experience that I cannot get in real-life. Basically to me, I do observe mannerism/ behaviors and ethics when I meet new friends on secondlife. By having a good mannerism, behaviors and ethics it proves to me that the person is nice and approaching and I would the dare to chat with that person and to know more about that person. This is because mannerism/ behaviors/ ethics, portrays how the person is in real life to me.  The experience I had virtually meeting with my new Hong Kong friend name BillyNg was great and I would say it was an easy go with the flow meeting. It started off with a simple” Hello” and we settled down somewhere in the library nearby to avoid the crowd to ask and answer each other questions. I like the behaviors/ mannerism and ethics that my new friend portrays and he also did help me in some of the features such as “How to sit down” as I am quite clueless about that. Basically we exchange a lot of different information that we had and I learnt quite a number of new things from him about Hong Kong and himself through the research question. Throughout the meeting, I felt comfortable talking and asking him questions and I am sure he felt the same way too. It was definitely easier and interesting experience for me than what I expected. After, we finished our task we did exchange our email and we added each other up on facebook and also msn. In addition, I have gained quite a number of things through this e-learning experience, not only the fun part of meeting new friends or the new information but also it makes me become a much more confident person by approaching strangers and talk to them or respond to strangers when they talk to me, which I would never had done in real-life. Basically, the most challenging experience I had was heading to a certain destination places. When I started to explore the second life places, I got lost so often as I was so clueless that I could teleport from places to places and that there was a map. Despite reading the “Olive” slides, I still could not figure out the different unique features such as “teleport” until I try reading the slides over and over again for a couple of time. However overall, I love the unique experience and below are the picture of me and my new friend.