When Real Life and Second Life Collide

Seems in the new techno-world of the 21st century, fidelity isn't just limited to the real world...

Case in point, a British couple are divorcing after 3 years of marriage when the wife repeatedly caught her husband's Second Life avatar having sex with various women (including prostitutes).

My question... in the divorce settlement, who gets the computer?

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AD39U20081114?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology&sp=true

Second Kid Life?

Seems everyone is getting into social sites and virtual worlds these days... latest among them is Disney.

With the release of DGamer, Disney is entering the mix of virtual worlds along with Nickelodeon, Mattel, and Lego (forthcoming).

The line from the Washington Post article that really jumped out at me was:

"Disney pitches DGamer as part virtual world, part social-networking site."

Social Networking for kids... isn't that called "school" and "the playground"? Do kids as young as 3 really need to network? And what are they going to commiserate about? "Mommy was late again with my morning bottle" or "Mr. Bunnyjumps lost one of his sewed on eyes"?

I secretly wonder if I'm already starting to get crotchity in my old age... but I swear things used to be a lot simpler when I was a kid... and while I had to get up to change the TV channel and only had a few channels to choose from... I think I'm glad I grew up then and not now...