This
week, my experience with Second Life helped support the social construction
theory. I was just messing around the different worlds (mainly Freebie Island)
and ended up near a bunch of people who were all apparently a part of a certain
group. After reading their public chat logs, I found they were a group of
people who all met over Second Life and meet up together regularly. This
supports the social construction theory because it shows how technology has
influenced friendship. From this group, there was a person from Oklahoma,
another from Texas, and another from North Carolina. These were the people who
I engaged in conversation with. While talking to these people, I noticed
some clues to help support the SIDE Theory. The SIDE theory says that groups
will create their own norms for each other. When chatting, all of these people
used "text message lingo" (wut, btw, lol, u). This is laziness, to
me, but in the world of the internet, it is the norm.
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