Second Life

Another kind of social networking is the "virtual communities" and one of the most famous and well developed is called "Second Life" which is basically a multiplayer online game which characteres lives in a virtual world, where they can interact with each other, having a real life with work, friends and trips. However "Second Life" can be more than just a game for entertainment, because nowadays it has been used for bussiness school students to test entrepreneurial talents, for some kids to improve social skills and several another activities to develop certain disabilities. The game is helping many people with different kind of issues such as abused children, adults with cerebral palsy and sufferers of autism and Asperger's syndrome, because they are personally and emotionally involved in the game, which helps a lot their treatment. Besides that as I said in the beggining, companies and businesses schools use the game to help the development of businesses skills and basically what they do is similar to the real life, start the businesses, advise something already in existence and in the end they see who is the most successful. Therefore, the "Second Life" is being used  for entertainment as well as serious purposes, due to its flexibility, being really useful for society in general.