Second Life - Do something thats not possible in real life.

Guys I don't have words to describe this Deveratsic new Virtual World - The Second Life.

So, as any wise guy would do, I steal the words of Camille Dodero. It would be very shameful on my part if I copy and paste the entire article - Does your life suck? published in The Phoenix.

This is Second Life (SL), a three-dimensional virtual environment created by Linden Lab, a seven-year-old San Francisco–based company. In this pixelated alternate world — a mainland surrounded by islands that spans more than 42,000 acres in real-world scale, bigger than metropolitan Boston — account holders aren’t users, they’re “residents.” In this world, you can fly. You can “teleport.” You can’t drown. You do not age. You can have an awkward version of cyber-sex. You can tailor your “avatar,” an endlessly customizable 3-D representation of your Second Life self, in any imaginable shape. You can be an emerald dragon, a horned devil baby, a furry fox, or a lumbering gingerbread man. But most avatars you’ll encounter are idealized human shapes. And in this world, real people spend real money (yes, actual US dollars) on make-believe skate boards, T-shirts, and islands like Zephyr Heights, which cost $1250 US Dollars to purchase from Linden Lab with a USD $195 monthly maintenance fee — possessions that can’t be ridden, worn, or visited outside a computer screen.

If you are hearing this for the first time, I suggest you vist the following wiki sites :
1. Virtual World
2. Second Life
3. World of Warcraft

and of course the official sites :
1. Second Life
2. World of WarCraft