Working in the web industry you tend to find some really strange things on the web. We all thought that second life was cool until it took you 20+ hours just to learn how to get to some stupid island to watch a tutorial and some wierdo wanted to to preform some act for the Second life currency.
Now I have run across a really cute but very disturbing site. You create your on avatar or cartoon likeness, build your chat room, add decor then chat with friends. Your avatar will not look like you nor even remotely reflect your personality, but hey who is judging. Lively.com is a new creation by Google.
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Googles key motto is to not be evil and they are crating a world that screams lets corrupt it with porn and the potential of virtual phone sex.
Now picture walking into a chat room you were invited to and the room is full of some really weird stuff. Strange stuff on the walls odd things laying around the floor. From across the room a deep voice calls “Boy you sure got a pretty mouth”. Can you say TOTALLY CREEPY.
How long will it take before this happy cute thing turns into a porn infested freak show.


I remember that “don’t do evil” or some crap motto Google claims to abide by. Talk about quaint, vague, and a little too ambitious even for them. This site is just another example. It seems like they are trying to attract the MySpace/Second Life crowd as you mention, yet the potential to corrupt is so obvious.