Time for a Cyber Cigarette

This falls under the category of, "Now I've heard everything."

An English couple are getting a divorce because the husband had an extra-marital affair. Well, if the story ended there it would make sense. But, turns out hubby was having sex with another woman online in the virtual community Second Life.

Amy Taylor walked in on her husband, whose avatar (a computer-generated graphic that represents the person controlling it) having sex with a female avatar from the United States. The husband, David Pollard, and this other woman had never met in real life, because apparently this guy has never done anything outside of his virtual world. In fact, this story made news because Amy and David's wedding was held in Second Life back in 2005.

At first, I thought Amy was an idiot for seeking a divorce based on her husband having cyber sex and not a real affair, but now that I have thought about it more, I think this guy's a complete whack job and doesn't deserve a wife.

Now, I enjoy the Internet as much as the next person, but I'm not going to whip out my cyber wang and go strutting my stuff in Second Life, or any other virtual world for that matter.

As I read this story and continued thinking about it, I couldn't comprehend why anyone would hold their marriage in the virtual world, or why anyone would go through the trouble of creating an avatar and figuring out how to copulate with someone else online.

And then it hit me...it's the basis of this whole blog. People suck! That's the only way to explain it. Instead of spending time on Second Life, people like this need to get a First Life -- go outside, and start interacting with the world.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to play NHL 09 on my PS3 for the next six hours.

RoadRage