Second Life on Internet - Love Triggers Was viewing the news "Second Life" - Love triggers real-life split in times. A British couple in real life is getting a divorce after the wife discovered that her husband was having an affair in cyber life.
Come to the world of Second Life, the unreal, virtual world, a craze among Britons which is leading to broken relationships in the parallel, real world.
In Internet dating people do create a virtual alter ego, which can move around the imagined world, meet people, socialize.
Amy tailor and david pollard met in the Internet chat room. She moved from her home in London to be with him in Cornwall England and at first they had fun together, in real life and cyberspace.
When home, each nurtured and lived their fantasies through their alter egos in Second life. One day Amy woke up from an afternoon nap to see Pollard at his computer watching his virtual character Barmy having sex with an online call girl.
She fumed. She told she was mad and was so hurt. Once again, Amy caught Pollard, this time watching Barmy cuddling a girl.
That was it. She filed for divorce and even changed her maiden name. Their virtual characters already got a cyber divorce.
Pollard defended himself saying it was after all an affair in the unreal world. |