Why enter virtual world?
There are multiple reasons for which a person must enter in a virtual world. The following are some of the unique features of virtual world. Safety, ease of creation of relationship, control power and the chance to escape are identified as unique features of virtual world. They are discussed below:
a) Ease of relationship creation
Mahar and Mahar (2009) describe that a new player exposed to second life for the first time may predict that the most interesting section of the experience is that they do not require doing anything. There are no monsters to evade and there is no time urgency. If a new player assumed Second life to be a video game then she or he may be disappointed because the experience does not have a traditional driving force of beating the game. The virtual world occurs to denote social self-efficacy and interactions problems can be left in the real world. The virtual world of second life acts as an aggregator bringing people together for the need of social interaction. The virtual world offers a place that is accessible from almost anywhere and the opportunities for socializing are limitless virtually with tens of thousands of people online at any specific time. Second life acts as a ready marketplace for sellers and buyers of social capital. The major function of the virtual world is to bring sellers and buyers of social capital together. The distinct properties of the virtual environment make interaction in the virtual world comparatively painless, simple and inexpensive.
b) Escape:
For many centuries people have used fantasy, stories and fiction to escape from the mundane or unpleasant aspects of everyday life. The fast paced nature of present age has developed higher demands for escape and the technology has developed to meet this demand. This is not importantly the case with virtual worlds. Virtual communities’ involvement will increase the essential for social capital production while offering the component of escape and fantasy. The players can escape their problem through virtual worlds because others can only link with them through their own virtual world avatar. Because there is no real world interaction that is not authorized by the user the virtual world permits for audience segregation between the two worlds. The second life users are expected to be masquerading as something that is always quite varied from their real world persona. Thus the importance for escape is much higher in Second life than in other social networking sites.
为什么进入虚拟世界？
有多种原因，一个人必须进入一个虚拟的世界。以下是一些虚拟世界的独特的特征。安全，创建关系缓和，控制电源和逃生的机会被确定为虚拟世界的独特的特征。他们讨论如下：
一）关系创造轻松
Mahar和Mahar（2009）描述了一个新的玩家接触到第二人生第一次可以预测的经验，最有趣的部分是，他们不需要做任何事情。没有怪物来逃避，没有时间的紧迫性。如果一个新的球员认为第二人生是一个视频游戏，然后她或他可能会失望，因为经验没有打比赛的传统驱动力。表示社会自我效能感和相互作用问题发生，虚拟世界可以留在真实世界。第二生命作为一个集合一起带来人的社会交往的需要的虚拟世界。虚拟世界提供了一个地方，可以从几乎任何地方的机会是无限的虚拟社交与成千上万的人在任何特定的时间在线。第二人生作为卖家和买家准备的社会资本市场。虚拟世界的主要功能是把买家和卖家的社会资本。虚拟环境的独特性能使相互作用的相对无痛的虚拟世界，简单和廉价的。
B）逃脱：
许多世纪以来，人们用幻想，故事和小说摆脱日常生活的平凡或不愉快的方面。快节奏的当代性发展为逃避和技术有较高的要求已发展到满足这方面的需求。这不是虚拟世界的案例。虚拟社区的参与将增加社会资本生产要素同时提供逃避和幻想的成分。玩家可以逃避问题，通过虚拟世界因为别人只能与他们通过他们自己的虚拟世界中的化身。因为没有真实世界的交互是不是被观众隔离两个世界之间的虚拟世界允许用户授权。第二人生用户预计将伪装成的东西总是很不同于他们的真实世界的角色。因此，重要的是在第二人生逃脱比在其他社交网站更高。
