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But who gets the li’l avatars?

Posted on November 14th, 2008

From the AP (via my daughter Leah):

Amy Taylor filed for divorce when she discovered her husband cheating in Second Life — an online community where players adopt personas called avatars, mingle with others and teleport themselves into a series of artificial worlds.

“I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game,” Taylor told the South West News Service press agency. “It looked really affectionate. He confessed he’d been talking to this woman player in America for one or two weeks, and said our marriage was over and he didn’t love me any more.”…

[Tags: second_life marriage ]

Tagged with: digital culture • marriage

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2 Responses to “But who gets the li’l avatars?”

  1. M.S., on November 17th, 2008 at 6:26 pm Said:

    Basaed on what I have read about the habits of this couple, they might like to sign up for Second Life counselling (http://www.slcounseling.org/)

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  3. BloggerDude, on October 8th, 2009 at 8:14 pm Said:

    I don’t know If I said it already but …Hey good stuff…keep up the good work! :) I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,)

    A definite great read….

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