If you care about yourself at all, don't play Second Life.
It keeps showing up on CNN for some reason, even though it's FUCKING HORRIBLE. They make it seem like some great game, but it has no redeeming qualities at all. It is a horrible mess full of horrible people making horrible things. It is not innovative, it is disgusting.
It is the 4chan of video games.
When I was in journalism two years ago in high school, my teacher had me to an article on second life because she'd heard a lot of people in the news talking about it. She got REALLY pissed at me when I said something like "it's nothing but people having sex, people pretending to be animals, and people pretending to be animals having sex"
I don't know why but I guess because I shattered her view of it she just got REALLY MAD AT ME. Sorry lady, but I played it (back when GW did, for the two times I could ever get it to run for more than four minutes), I could show you the screenshots but I'd probably get expelled for looking at that with school computers.