These are highly customizable and you can choose to be almost anything, from a blue smurf to a hulking six-foot ogre. Much like in a CRPG or an MMO, Second Life residents represent themselves through avatars.
What really sets it apart is not only its residents’ freedom to roam the world and interact with each other, but also its thriving, fully-fledged in-world economy and user-generated content.
However, Second Life has often been regarded as a video game since it pre-dates many major social platforms.
